Arlington
by Angela Corbet
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It has been one year
the fractured mud-gash of earth
now dry, late-autumn
lawn. Stiff leaves, bare boughs
take up the tattoo echoed
that day over stones –
marble, uniform –
arrayed by rows wide awake
to death’s camaraderie.
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