What use?

after the photograph ‘A walk in the Fog and Snow, Kinglake, June 10 2009′ by Lloyd Godman.

what use?

are words after the roar has subsided

yesterday it seemed pointless

burying the dead under an angry sun,

raising new structures, hiding the truth.

what use? you were thinking, when

it only took the morning

to lay its cool satin breath

of ice and home over you,

and all the ghosts who’d grasp

for one more tomorrow

reach out, waving.

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