感謝 & requiescat in pace John Burnside, 19 March 1955 – 29 May 2024 ~ illustr. Christian Zucconi

“A good writing day is a day with the fewest interruptions, mixed with a sense of gratitude, just for being able to put pen to paper.”

A FOOTNOTE TO COLOSSIANS

           For ye are dead, and your life is hid.
                    Colossians 3:3Let us remember
the stillborn: how they

cede their places here
with such good grace

that no one ever
speaks of them

again.
In school,

we placed them, carefully,
in Limbo,

deep in the folds of smoke
and snowfall, where

their names would never
find them:

pagan, now,
and immaterial,

like phantoms,
or that

boy I sometimes saw
in polaroids,

the one they said
was me.
- from the book Ruin, Blossom published 2023

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