#debeauville
Hart-Bevil Cemetery, Tyler County, Texas
From service as Companions of the Conqueror
To the democracy of death and dust
This was family land in the long ago
Now alienated from the living
Accessible through permissions and locks
But we and the ghosts are okay with that
They say that only four of them were hanged
The dealer in false deeds died of old age
Some possibly were saints; hard to believe
For after all, we are de Beauville’s kin
From Normandy, and then green Chesterton
And then dispersed to the colonies
At the convenience of His Majesty
De Beauvilles and Bevilles and then Bevils
And some are buried on this lonely knoll
Dim mossy bones and stones among the pines
Across the fence a little heap of glass
Broken flower vases from the dime store
Now the democracy of dust and death
But once
Companions of the Conqueror
Mar 22, 2019
Mar 22, 2019 at 3:26 PM UTC