dry bones

Dry bones –

warm heat draws

life away,

live marrow unknown in the core.

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Sinews, tendons, vessels, veins –

years ago moved in ways

unaware of the floating,

hovering edge of death.

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I once heard that the skull

is not a symbol of fatality

in most cultures,

but the most permanent sign

of the human face,

anonymous individual shapes

lasting beyond ages.

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Do these bones wait for life beyond?

or are they spent

and done?

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