Positions
You sleep flat in
the fire of all that was
and never burn;
ice doesn't.
I sleep on
the ashes; a body in
a prehistoric grave,
with stones, ivory rings
and broken pots,
curled tight to shield
all the soft things
that rot away.
October 2021
posted for Quadrille Night
at dVerse Poets
Images: Bronze Age Pot from prehistoric burial, Southern Urals © Finn Shrieber from article
Neolithic skeleton of a woman, from 4500 year old burial in Germany, by Archaeros, from article
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