Scott Simpson · Poetry
Across the Canyon
Selected Poems 1989 to 2009 · source pages 237
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Source page 237
Across the Canyon
The mountain is a pile
of bones
centuries smoothed
and overgrown
and settling into powder
a mass grave for paupers
— no headstone.
Whose lives?
Whose monument? Whose
voices speak
every time I walk here?
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