Saturday, July 26, 2025

Graves Beside the Trail

Detail of a photo illustration by Ashley Z.Boon



Swallows banked and dove

over the abandoned field

steeped in briars and asters

tall as the family stones

children and spouses

slowly eroding.


The stones shared an age

in evening's pall—

nineteen twice.

We stopped to watch

as if we wouldn't forget.

Uno vida. Uno vida.


Near the Salisbury Viaduct on The Great Allegheny Passage.