stonehaven
ovenbird
Your
name
engraved
in
granite
marks
the
last
place
your
feet
touched
land
.
You
climbed
the
cliffs
in
youthful
ignorance
, belayed
to
a
man
who
could
not
withstand
the
force
of
the
fall
,
so
you
both
plummeted
one
hundred
feet
into
the
deadly
roil
of
the
North_Sea.
You
have
no
grave
but
this
:
this
cold
basin
fed
by
the
Atlantic,
tempestuous
and
severe.
No
bodies
ever
came
to
light
.
Decades
later
we
stood
where
the
gale
swept
the
purple
moor
grass
into
rolling rivulets
and
listened
for
your
final
cries echoing
off
the
cliff
face
,
hearing
nothing
but
the
call
of
a
northern_gannet
and
the
empty
howl
of
all
those
unsung
years
.
251024
what's it to you?
who
go
blather
from