Friday, November 5, 2021

As in Synonymous



Chest

like vault

or treasure keeper-

holder

as in Heart

or locket, like a lockbox

fitted with skeleton key-

hole-

simply very heavy

and something

sounds 

broken

inside.


Unable to lift alone

as pallbearer in the past

I feel the dead weight 

familiar remembering

without seeing

This must be why

we bury our dead

in wooden chests such

as these 

likewise.


Photo credit: Harris & Ewing, photographer, taken 1925 in Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

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