Last Rites, by Emily Reid Green

Death of a Pilgrim, by Felix Joseph Barrias (France, 1822-1907.)

Last Rites

I am here to unsteady your desolate doorstep
To shrine shabby fatigue under winter’s white wool
I seek no permission to bleak burden your passage
To blanket pour my diluted corporeal leftovers
I am the lotus-eater grown indolent with divine devotion
To strain under the laden sky 
All mocking stars most flimsy moon
I seek no apology to mend my intimate faith
Bleached blank under an eroding sun

Emily Reid Green

Emily Reid Green's poetry, creative non-fiction and flash fiction have appeared in publications including: Skipping Stones, Common Threads, The Font, The Linnet’s Wings, Khroma, Gravel, andSkive Magazine. An unabashed bookworm and avid knitter, she lives with her family in Toledo, Ohio.