The Required Dance, by W.E. Butts, 1990
$20.00
The Lesson
Father, I have learned
sadness in the eyes
of children is prophecy.
They watch the dim spark
at the center of each star
and know, even in that stillness,
to say we are dying is not enough.
Tonight, nearly fifteen years
since the horrible ceremony
of your passing, I come
to offer this final sacrament
of ancient bone evolving new skin.
—(Excerpted from The Required Dance, W.E. Butts. Igneus Press (1990))
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