Sarah Hutchins

Nocturne

After all of the trees harvested for houses, furniture, and sundries
now rot from the autumn rainstorms,
and animal corpses decompose atop shallow graves,
and there’s nothing left to burn,
one last piano remains
with its melodies
to warm and satisfy our hungry ghosts
through the cold, bitter nights.

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