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Interment

In fifth grade, I earned first place
statewide for violin
against the girl I half-loved—
her fingers quicker,
her lineage more illustrious—
but that day,
mine did not tremble.

She chose a piece
with fireworks and pitfalls—
something by Tchaikovsky—
I chose Barcarolle—
plainspoken, sweet,
a boat gliding through moonlight.
I played it without flaw.
She slipped once,
only once.

We both knew I’d won
on a grace note—
not brilliance, nor fire—
just

Categories: interment, 5th grade, celebration, childhood,
Form: Free verse

Lost Interment

Prate is to
poetry
as death is to
life

Dilletante 
graveyards
lie marking
the site

Where words
never weighted
whose wings
couldn’t fly

Unmarked
without headstones
 condemned here
— to die

(Dreamsleep: April, 2025)

Categories: interment, words,
Form: Rhyme

Tight Miniskirt

A fiercely tight as light garment
You won't spare cruel comment;
To put it on a self torment,
To take it off: you shall lament.

Garment's troubles wearers foment
And the needless pains augment,
Sooner on your waist liniment:
A sweet fashion–imposed ailment
"Just,you watch Laura's face,ferment 
You'd think she's from dad's interment"

Laura's thigh had yelled in the skirt,
Her helpless pelvis rudely hurt
By

Categories: interment, addiction, allusion, clothes, woman,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

An Enterprise of Surprise

He started A Sharp Enterprise
And it was A Thing of Surprise:
Big Shops you walked up to their shelves
To survey the items yourselves;
Many a sure lasting garment
That should permit no argument,
Which one could wear till Interment 
And still not be starved compliment …

A lot of Touching Friendliness
Because of his stamped Godliness:
A Policy of Dialogue 
And rejection

Categories: interment, beauty, business, devotion, money,
Form: Rhyme

Interment

Bury what you can with words
  —and remember the rest

(Villanova Pennsylvania: March, 2019)

Categories: interment, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Interment

Interment

I sat by the window trying to catch sunbeam, when a man 
in a black suit, that hung loose on his skinny frame, walked 
past and I saw him disappear where the sandy road ends 
and the olive grove begins. For reason unknown to me he
cried, tears rolled to the lane like a broken pearl

Categories: interment, fear, introspection, me,
Form: Blank verse

Interment

Funeral.
A young man died in his sleep he was 49 years old, with my aged eyes 
he was boy too young to die. I don’t know the medical reason for his 
early demise, think it has to do with burst blood vessel in the brain. 
I went to his funeral last Sunday it was a

Categories: interment, death, love, for her,
Form: Blank verse