Yarmouth Ancient Cemetery by Judy DeCroce

Taken

this gale of ghosts

an omen coasting past,

in mindless blue air,

over this land of finishes

all our mistakes, joys, and lives 

distilled down,

reduced to:

   Loving Mother

   Taken too Soon

   Rest in Peace

Where I join lovers, thieves,

those ordinary lives brushed by weeds.

Who were we?

Lives shaved down to two dates

beginning and end or tiny lives

with only one.

Who was I?

Let me tell you a story.

Judy DeCroce, is an educator, poet/flash fiction writer and avid reader whose works have been published by Plato's Cave online, Pilcrow & Dagger, Amethyst Review, Tigershark Publishing, The BeZine and many others.  As a professional storyteller and teacher of that genre, she also offers, workshops in flash fiction. 

Judy lives and works in upstate New York with her husband poet/artist, Antoni Ooto.