[ to Thomas Leland Murphy, my cousin
(August 1983-April 2013)]
you seemed to smile kindly on the few friends
who knew you
who dared to leave comments before
comments were closed.
but what do I know
having been far from home
for such a long time now
I've probably disappeared
from all the albums.
a dry wit, they said.
a kind of gallantry implied
in yearbook autographs.
twenty nine years old
in love with cinema
self-effacing I am sure
conscientious at the supermarket
with a sunlit word or two
for a customer near
the early strawberries-
a friend to everyone on break.
don't send flowers the
notice read
in a typeface fit for a wedding.
Thomas Leland, here
I leave for you I lay
before your dreaming now
who never met you in life
the choicest bouquet
of all the emerald Aprils you have bereaved
and heaped up, shining-without stint-
every flower of the impearled fields...
mary angela douglas 29 october 2013
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