SIT TIBI TERRA LEVIS
on a gravestone
The earth is all too heavy,
spaded black and new,
but let it note your heavy sleep
and lightly lie on you.
Published in the June 2020 issue:
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Deborah Warren is an award-winning author and poet, most recently of Strange to Say: Etymology as Serious Entertainment (Paul Dry Books, 2021) and Connoisseurs of Worms (Paul Dry Books, 2021).
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