home from the steel warehouse
dad's lunch box filled
with wildflowers

                              prayers over
                              dad’s casket descends
                              through a maze of severed roots

           

“Red Hots!”

 for an instant i’m ten
 and
 father’s still alive

                                  

~ ~ Ed Markowski

"Steel Warehouse"  was published in tinywords, October 26, 2005.
"Prayers Over" was first published on David Giacalone's blog f/k/a June 19, 2005.
"Red Hots" was published in Haiku Sun Magazine, Issue #10, 2004.