The dead are all around us they are as alive in their way as we are in ours
We share a world of shadows with these manes and step awkwardly into the light
Every breath of the wind is a dead soul passing every autumn leaf that falls a secret hieroglyph from the beyond
Beasts in the wild know this thus the coyote sings his mad lament the raven turns his dull eye toward the east expecting not light but a flight of dark wings
And dark wings command my attention these days my eye turned inexorably toward the night
Where every word is farewell where all commerce ends and I rejoin the stream of stars
Done with all of this. And surely it will be bliss.