Bake-a-yarn: Burial Practices

Tuesday 17 October 2023

I always mark the graves now

with a stone maybe,

not that I'm sentimental or religious

or afraid of digging them up

when I plant Spring bulbs,

it's just that he's less likely

to remove a stone from the sepulchre,

as it were, and ferry away the body,

prompting theories of resurrection,

and more likely to leave the dead wren,

or fledgling whatever, just where it is

to rest in peace.