Garth Myers
It shouldn’t take a war to remember the dead
It shouldn’t even take a day
The dead are all around us below us above
Us inside us.
On Cedar Hill Hepburn and Hall
Lie with them all,
Wells Welles Williams Wallace
Fischer Forester Friedman Fernandez
D’Agostino Dimitri De la Garza.
I could read the names to you one by one
Mother father daughter sister brother son
But you already know them, us
Inside us. It shouldn’t take the dead
To remember the dying.