Village Coda

He is drunk at the lectern,
mourners shuffle in cramped pews.
Dark oak creaks like a question.

Outside, bees pollinate the sunken
graveyard. The river barely glints
but shuffles by like an old widow

Her banks are blanket boxes
filled with hidden empty bottles.
She can't recall last year's flood.


Richie McCaffery

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