Diminution by Michael Keshigian

On a tree

by a narrow street

upon an bending bough

I perch in a dream

unseen 

over people in a field

hovering about 

an empty hole

obstructed by a box

with contents

of what use to be me.

Some are sobbing,

most are somber

and few hide

a reluctant obligatory glint.

All see the hyphen 

between random dates

engraved upon granite,

transform my toil

to a trophy abbreviation 

for living.

Michael Keshigian, from New Hampshire, had his twelfth poetry collection, Into The Light, released in April, 2017 by Flutter Press. He has been published in numerous national and international journals including Oyez Review, Red River Review, Sierra Nevada College Review, Oklahoma Review, Chiron Review and has appeared as feature writer in over  twenty publications with 6 Pushcart Prize and 2 Best Of The Net nominations. (michaelkeshigian.com)