Following on from yesterday, we are going to borrow again from this year’s Napowrimo. In April, we had to list ten items one might find at an auction or a garage sale. This time around, I want you to list ten items that one might find in a cairn or mausoleum. Write in any form including those items.
A Litany In Which Things Are Half Forgotten
Dusk roses, bereft of scent withered petals - confetti of loss around an offering bowl filled with atrophied stalks. A candle, unlit but half-burned; wax dripping like a life towards the ground, towards finality. Urn - burnished brass, scent of sulphur and a bonfire of memories from its plinth. In the alcoves; a fine cosmos of arachnids. Little stars skittering through their webbed galaxy.
Yellowed pages of a rotting notebook. Leather cover sloughing away from pages like skin from skeleton. Shot glass from where I drank your farewell. Rounds of good whiskey from your coffin lid. Last picture of us, smiles in sepia. A memory captured and left here to fade with the rest...
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