Magpie Tales 113: Ritual

Red Roofs, Marc Chagall, 1954.  Shared by Tess Kincaid




daily bread




I picked a flower 
for your grave.  in 


the old neighborhood
dilapidation on every 
doorstep offered no 
prayers for deliverance as
stale air flowed 
across garden tombs
of rooftops.
  
a collective 
of burnished effort, 
of silent stillness 
is our ritual resurrection, 
with a tear for water -
  
for blossom petals
clinging to 
a stem.   




Poem ©2012 R. Burnett Baker