I was five hours through my trip of eight When I saw through bug guts light tearing cloud I was thinking about clips sent my way Of her play with the offspring of her own
Laughing without regard for somber weight Which hung on us like a funeral shroud Her spirit was ready were it the day She was prepared if then she would have flown
But how it closed with a coffin lid’s freight What tears under such sorrow we allowed In front of his daughter dying he lay Soon enough I’d have his pictures alone
In the light I saw insects smashed to death “Three hours left” I said under my breath
An attempt at a chiastic sonnet. My grandfather died in late 2011, and my grandmother passed a little over ten years later. I thought about these things on a drive home from college.