Daily writing prompt: What’s a secret skill or ability you have or wish you had?  

It’s not a secret

that I can spend all day at a cemetery

listening to the stories that the dead have to tell.

“Jemma”
October 2023
Photo: A..M. Moscoso

Every poem, every song,every wish that they ever had

is carved in marble, etched in stone

trapped in the leaves of the  weeds and trees

that wrap their roots around their bones

all you have to do is sit down with them

quiet yourself

and listen.