Mourning Dew Drop

. for public domain

Each teardrop from her cheek,
bore her grief,
and grazed the coffin near the altar.
The grange hall chapel was so quiet.

A few hollers away,
on her porch,
she weeps beside an empty chair,
in shadows of tall grassy knobs.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2022

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