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Anzang

Stand in empty fields.
Series of yellows, greens, grays.
Grass only grows, a natural death
holds no fear. There are

no crying families here. They wait
in queues at funerals,
place cold pearls in cooling hands,

sit in silence, twist handkerchiefs. Today,
sorrow is hidden, a crime.
And the grass still

grows. It cycles, aids
soil and stone to finally
bury the dead.
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Anzang is Mandarin Chinese for "Bury the dead". I was so intrigued by the fact that the Chinese have a specific verb for not only burying, but burying the dead, I wrote this in the midst of a study hall period.

As well, the pearl line references the belief held by some Chinese people that pearls placed in the hands and moths of the dead will preserve the spirits and help bribe the judges of death.

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