La Poesie Me Volera Ma Mort

Chris Bullard

Writing from the grave is a pleasure. Everything is monumental here.

There was a single word on my lips when I expired. Now, novels

scroll from my corpse. You are the central character of my fiction.

I direct praise to you as a tree sends its roots into the soil.

Transmission is difficult, but the purest line is never the line

that is written. Whatever I hold back, that is yours, too.

CHRIS BULLARD is a retired judge who lives in Philadelphia,PA. Grey Book Press published Continued,a poetry chapbook,in 2020 and Moonstone Press published Going Peaceably to the Obsidian Knife, a chapbook of environmentally themed poetry in 2021. Main Street Rag released his poetry chapbook, Florida Man,this year.