Graveside
Jan 1
1 min read
By: Megan Cartwright
Cinematic: the casket.
Slow-motion slide.
Static flock of black umbrellas,
patter-pitter
of soil on the coffin top.
The shock,
a stomach’s pneumatic
drop.
Time is tissue-thin.
Obituaries are fictions;
in grief, truth is a prison.
Megan Cartwright is an Australian poet and Literature teacher. Her writing has featured in Contemporary Verse 2, Island Magazine and Verandah Literary and Art Journal, among others.