Headstone by Zvi A. Sesling

Cold reminder of existence carved:

loving spouse, parent, grandparent

plus years granted

Lovers are not included

neither is corruption

business

Education,  swimming holes

are forgotten

so are pets

The first car is now rotting in a

pile of rotting cars somewhere

in a past city

Worldly goods and clothes divided

among the living or dispersed or disposed

to street dwellers finding and claiming them

Money left to the lucky who will forget the

giver, forget to visit the headstone soon overgrown

with grass or weeds

Zvi A. Sesling has published in numerous magazines. He edits Muddy River Poetry Review and publishes Muddy River Books. He authored King of the Jungle (Ibbetson Street Press, 2010) and a chapbook Across Stones of Bad Dreams (Cervena Barva Press, 2011) and Fire Tongue ( Cervena Barva Press, 2016).