Mourning Cart I

2009
Collection of discarded cemetery silk flowers
Peachtree Street, Atlanta, GA

“arrays of flowers of death

humming the hymns of mourning

with

you

invitation of mourning

then transpires

a painful acknowledgment

yet a bittersweet grief and healing

perhaps it doesn’t have to be so hard

so come here with me

on a yellow cart on a bright day in March,

you may taste a bit of the sweetness of life, too.”

-written in March, 2008