Last wishes
When I die,
don't feed my ashes
into the
lazy river
that runs past
the condemned buildings
that were city
factories
with broken-eye windows,
a harbinger of down-size
and
hostile take-over.
Don't give my humerus
or tibia to the woman
whose
son turned
to calcified dreams
under desert storms.
But rather,
take from me what is
still light and durable,
stretch and sew it
into a kite.
Give it to a child
who can run all day
under clean
sweep of sky
near the swaying evergreens
that still
remember me.
Kyle Hemmings is the author of several chapbooks
of poetry and prose: Avenue C, Cat People,
and Anime Junkie (Scars Publications).
His latest e-books are You Never Die in
Wholes from Good Story Press and The
Truth about Onions from Good Samaritan. He lives and writes in New Jersey.
