laid out
in an Armani tux
cherry casket gleams
my Friday Lunch Group files by
damn, he looks good … always did
a simple pine box
like one that held my chess set
only been one day
and already I am home …
at our Synagogue: Kaddish
a coffin
made by Trappist Monks
and blessed –
solid wood and no veneer
shaped in rural solitude
I am reduced
to cinder and bone fragments:
basic elements
my ashes float on kelp
all the way to China
a pilot program
I am flown to Washington
to be composted –
whicah may help save our planet
I will rest in peat
Category 2 (Honorable Mention)
