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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460569" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0082 The New Grave</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You brought your watercolour kit.<br>For it’s so picturesque – the smallish church<br>in the centre of the village<br>like a mother hen at drowsy midday<br>surrounded by her chicks; <br>the red-white flag of Saint George<br>the only sign of life, fluttering like<br>an aerial footnote to history<br>(or for some, a corner of a foreign football field…) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">but there’s a new detail in the picture<br>since last you sketched here: <br>the newest arrival is the oldest: death; <br>the oldest signifier is the fresh-turned earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The uninvited thought squirms across the mind<br>like the exposed worms of that rich soil, <br>how reassuring to be buried in this ideal<br>picture-book of continuity amidst the change, <br>a country churchyard. A cemetery<br>has no geography and thus no history<br>save in the hearts of families; <br>here, all is reassuring<br>except to broken hearts which time will heal<br>all bar the scar.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Already, the bunch of daffodils<br>in the empty honey jar<br>have bowed to that same death; <br>reminding us that graves are spun around<br>a hundred and forty years of family history: <br>she’ll remember how she loved her Nan<br>who died at seventy-something<br>for all her own seventyish future years.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Rest in peace means something here.<br>Meanwhile, the daffodils thrive, dotted<br>among the graves, as unconcerned<br>as the soft rubber tyres of the hearse<br>now catching at the Spring’s reaching foliage<br>as it approaches at a perfectly-judged pace<br>down Church Lane, returning peace to peace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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