C.A.

by Britt Fleming 
 
  
Conrad Aiken’s grave, Savannah GA

Sit on my grave, and drink the truth
swim in the river beneath the Spanish Moss
      where the treasure lies
      beneath the mud and oyster shells
speak to sleeping ancestors in stone
lilac and magnolias and azaleas
            cosmos mariner
            sailing home


© 2006 by Britt Fleming. All rights reserved.
Charles Brittain Fleming is a Security Administrator living in Mankato, MN. He is currently an administrator for Northography (www.northography.com), a collaborative literary website of the region. People who know him call him Britt.