Ekstasis Magazine

In a Puritan Churchyard

Ekstasis Magazine
In a Puritan Churchyard

In a Puritan Churchyard
By Daniel Rattelle


The snow has stopped
for now. I step
across old crust,
alone, I guess. 

No cause to mourn,
the youngest stone
is Union dead,
we all know that. 

And Iā€™m no mourner ā€”
not anymore
but like the church

Iā€™m waiting for March 
and wearing thin
for snow. But then 
how like a seed 
it is to be buried. 


Daniel Rattelle
Poet & Journalist

Photography by Luis Gonzales