A Graveyard in Leeds, Utah (Poem)

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Photo of a cemetery in southeast Utah. Credit: Paul Martini.

A Graveyard in Leeds, Utah

By Austin Holmes

red rock in the distance
heaped with eons of silence
like molasses

a collapsed and
cobbled rust of a mine shaft
not far away

at my feet
the tiny stone reads
1878 – 1879