ELEANOR'S ASHES
"Ashes to ashes; dust to dust."
    - The Burial Service, Book of Common Prayer (1662)

The sun crawls up the eastern sky
as Richard climbs the last few feet
to view the vast Pacific.
Urn in hand, he keeps the wishes straight:
to read some Yeats and toss her.
The only one of four able to
easily carry the final dream
up the down escalator
at an unwelcome trot
to heaven's gate.
The sky at water's epidermis
beats fast off the coast of Mexico.
The wind blows hard from the west.
Back at the car his hair's turned gray
with Eleanor.

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