Noche
en el Panteón
(night in the cemetery)
Asleep
the children lie
atop the marble slabs
while parents chat by candlelight
or doze.
Most graves
bedecked with flowers set the mood
a festival of joy
and memories
of love.
White skulls
and coffins formed
of sugar are arranged
before the headstones - named for those
below.
As night
wears on ancestral visiting
with summoned ghosts begins
to wane and dawn
draws near.
Alone
she wends her way
between the stones to place
a mum on each untended grave
then leaves.
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