Cemetery

softly falling rain-
wandering through the graveyard
in the dead of night
–
overcast-
reading the details
of those long dead

blackbirds in the trees-
pebbles left on your headstone
in remembrance
–
knees in the soft earth-
I clear away
the weeds and leaves

an old church graveyard
dogwood petals salt the ground
o’er the waiting dead
–
grey rain-
tumbled stones
on hallowed ground