Ashes
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Ashes
Your great-grandchildren place red carnations on the polished surface of all that’s left of you; grasp your weight in brass handles, threaded with ornament of white crepe. The pastor speaks as if he had known you all your life, but you were a late immigrant always clutching at your Welsh roots, and we send you into the flames with a Gaelic prayer. Between hymns, he takes the liberty of slipping in a salvation message. I want to run from this too hot room, its human silences; shake off the unbearable light. Later, you will return to the country of your blood and my Grandfather will shake out your ashes on the mountainside at Brynithel where our ancestor climbed from the valley to marry her beloved in the thirteenth century chapel; where family ghosts shadow the earth’s veins in all the mines of the valley and your ashes seep in with the rain. (c)Deb Matthews-Zott
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