The Funeral

After talking about Amanda a couple of days this week, I figured today that I would post the poem that I wrote about her funeral. It was one of the more interesting funerals that I've attended in my life, and I wrote the first draft of this poem shortly after it. It was almost a year before I type it up and cleaned it up to perform at a reading; I needed to put some distance between me and the event in order to be objective about that part of the writing process.

( The Funeral )