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Shiva

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I am a haven for shiva
because there has been no funeral after.
Of the dead under my cad hands, hers

are still soft flesh leaving us,
me. While others have at her
I am a haven for amoebas.

And I remember she was:
a culture, a scavenger, a laissez passer—
of the dead under my padded hands, hers

are still vulture's lungs breathing us,
in. I am not inhaling her, rather
I am a haven for keeping dust.

There was never a moment of eureka!
and epiphany. But the harasser
of the dead are under my bandages: her.

I'll leave her…
I have to have her…
I am a haven for the diva
de los muertos
under my cadaver.
Trying to make her dead to me. Unrelatedly: another villanelle, not as sure about this one.

shiva - A period of seven days' formal mourning for the dead, beginning immediately after the funeral.

Shiva © 2012 Nic Swaner
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