NOTES FROM THE DEAD
Once flesh,
in the visible world,
I am this stone.
It bears my name
and figures that’s enough.
You can touch it
but any response
is all up to you.
My stone will, forever,
have a stone’s life.
Maybe my image
floats up in your head.
But, without the being
to back it up,
I am increasingly
decreasing.
©2024 John Grey All rights reserved.
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in New World Writing, North Dakota Quarterly and Lost Pilots. Latest books, Between Two Fires, Covert and Memory Outside The Head are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in California Quarterly, Birmingham Arts Journal, La Presa and Doubly Mad.