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MUSED Literary Magazine.
Poetry

A Funeral in the Rain

Ferris E Jones

The rain staggered the trees
and melted the ground with leaves.
Simplifying this day´s struggle
for which tomorrow will double.

No rites heard handed down
and no prayer to stop the sound.
This pain of decision
forever in precision.