Friday, April 28, 2006

My Epitaph, My Joy

Well rested peace now rests in peace
With calm content. A sleeve of dirt
Remains the rest of flesh as feast
For worms far more alive, alert
To less than me. I do not sleep
But I do rest in arms above the Earth.



by Evan Wilson

2 comments:

Evan B. Wilson said...

My body, on which these worms feed, is, now that it is dead, less than me.

Andrew Michael Jacobs said...

Oh boy. I didn't pick up on that meaning. I was thinking that you were spiritually alive and thus more alert to true reality than physically living worms.

I know this is poetry but aren't you bending things a little too much by not making some punctuation after "Remains" or at least adding the word "and" after it? I know it is the first word of the line but it is the end of a thought - unless I am again reading it wrong.