At The Cemetery
Her headstone
whispered
with a voice
made of
memory.
Dried Flowers
After hours spent
with our girls
in the sun
their shoulders,
cheeks, and
noses
all now painted
a summers
pink
I take the
flower
that this day has
bloomed
and fold it
delicately
between the
pages
where we wrote
it’s story
For Delia
Six bushels sit
stacked
Beneath an apple
tree
Empty now
But for the stars
Storms
She slides open the
curtain
of her dainty summer
dress
to the rain soaked
windows
her body passes
through
like a storm
of summer bloomed
lightning
Ravine
We should raise
our smiles in spite
of what we were
like droughted
ravines growing
wildflowers
in the absence of
water.
Bionote
Ryan Brennan lives in the Catskill Mountains with both a witch and a cat. He has recent or forthcoming work in Cider Press Review, Brazos River Review, Pif Magazine, Muddy River Poetry Review, The Mantle, One Sentence Poems, amongst others.
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