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Printed from https://shop.writing.com/main/books/entry_id/932369-Mexico-Da-de-Muertos
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Contest Entry · #1912256
a descent into poetry insanity
#932369 added April 8, 2018 at 7:55pm
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Mexico: Día de Muertos
with my two hands
I made a toy for a little boy,
a dragon, green with a fire red
tongue and spines down his back,
so that my little angel could play,
stepping from his headstone
to murmur secrets into his dragon’s ear,
and feed it candy skulls
and bring it to his pillow
and wrap in his blanket—
the one he carried with him everywhere
until it lost all color and warmth.
and then I called him,
leaving his place at the table
piled with good food, and smiling
as I remembered him, so that when
his time was over again,
I could let him go, slipping back into his
headstone, leaving only the memory
of a kiss on my cheek,
and a dragon to guard his way home.

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