"Child's Burial Moccasin, 19th Century, Found With Other Artifacts in Cave"
All the leaves stuck out their tongues;
I shook the softening chalk of my bones,
Saying,
Snail, snail, glister me forward,
Bird, soft-sigh me home,
Worm, be with me.
This is my hard time.
- Arthur Roethke, "The Lost Son" (1948)
TITLE - "Child's Burial Moccasin, 19th Century, Found With Other Artifacts in Cave"
WHERE - From my father's collection, San Diego, California (2015)