At Millay's Grave

Your ashes

In an urn

Buried here

Make me burn

For dear life

My candle

At one end—

Night outlasts

Wick and wax

Foe and friend

Samuel Menashe

From The Niche Narrows:
New and Selected Poems,
Talisman House, Publishers,
© 2000.  Reprinted by
permission of the author.