How can i bury you when you're not yet a corpse

This poem is amazing. I love the shortness of it. It is so, so Billy Collins (one of my favorite poets). The closing stanza is brillant

I highly appreciate that LilDragonFly.

Billy Collins is new to me so i'm going to check out some of his work later today.

thanks for the read and add.

You are most welcome samael. I hope you like Billy Collins as much as I do. You can find some of his poems on www.poetryfoundation.org.

Awesome, i finally splurged last month and bought a mail subscription to the Poetry foundation; now the trick is finding the time to read it in between here, my poetry blog,and life in general lol.

I think how the title ties into the theme of the poem is its most beautiful feature. This idea of dying, death and decay - a metaphor for the relationship displayed here is poignant.

It’s hard to get a balance such as this in so few lines, but I feel this was really well done.

The world is a cruel mistress, indeed. Thank you for sharing and I look forward to reading in the future.

This certainly is soul bearing and very poignant. Thank you