Joshua Keiter

Impossible to know 
what it was like 
to live through those times 

except for the forethought 
of placing stories 
in vessels that would withstand 

the massive destruction 
which itself was the story 
they were intent on telling 

what else to do but bury
the stories in the earth 
and trust that the living 

would find and read them
under the trees 
weeping