Issue Thirty-Three - Winter 2019

Funereal Rite

By Susan Rae Sampson

Some people recoiled
when I told what I knew
my father would want:
His ashes scattered
on a mound of dirt
planted with corn and beans
and fertilized
with the heads of a few fish.

Copyright Sampson 2019

Susan Rae Sampson has retired from the working world and writes poems and essays for the pleasure of it. She was the winner of the first chapbook contest from Wild Leek Press with her Book of Birds. Her essays about natural science and history have appeared in Awake in the World and the Archipelago Journal. Her lifestyle articles have appeared in the Wenatchee World newspaper and the Wenatchee Good Life magazine. Her poetry has appeared in the SHARK REEF and Floating Bridge literary journals.

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