SIT TIBI TERRA LEVIS

            on a gravestone

 

The earth is all too heavy,

spaded black and new,

but let it note your heavy sleep

and lightly lie on you.

Deborah Warren is an award-winning author and poet, most recently of Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment (Paul Dry Books, 2021) and Connoisseurs of Worms (Paul Dry Books, 2021).

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