21 September 2024 (an oyster shell)
Kristen Lindquist
an oyster shell
left on the oldest headstone
island cemetery
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29 May 2023 (along the path)
Kristen Lindquist
along the path
to an old cemetery
scent of lilacs
11 May 2023 (the worn slate)
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the worn slate gravestone
of someone named Thankful
apple blossoms
17 February 2023 (historic)
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historic district
Spanish moss haunts
the brick walkway
19 April 2021 (lichen)
Kristen Lindquist
island cemetery
an engraved death’s head
orange with lichen
10 September 2019 (cemetery)
Kristen Lindquist
starless night
plastic votives flickering
among headstones
December 8: Cemetery
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winter twilight
empty wasps’ nest
a paper lantern
December 11: Cemetery
Kristen Lindquist
Village cemetery
where my grandmother’s buried
covered with snow.
September 27: Disturbed soil
Kristen Lindquist
Posted with BlogsyJanuary 11: Last day in the Keys
Kristen Lindquist
Paul came up with another haiku today, to commemorate our morning visit to the Key West Cemetery:
Epitaph on stone
reads, "I told you I was sick."
Death gets the last laugh.
We also came upon a stone for a family's pet deer:
Later today we visited the National Key Deer NWR on Big Pine Key for the first time to see the little Key Deer, a subspecies of the (much larger) White-tailed Deer.
We once had a dog
bigger than this dark-eyed doe
and much less placid.
January 9: Impermanence
Kristen Lindquist
Stopped in a Tibetan market tucked inside St. Paul's Episcopal Church and bought from a Buddhist monk a bracelet made of turquoise skull beads. The helpful enclosure reads: "Buddhists incorporated skull images into bracelet to represent the impermanence of life and the limits of human knowledge. Skull-shaped bracelet beads help chanters reflect upon the inevitability of death and the necessity of embracing lives filled with compassion."
We pondered death further on a walk amid the white crypts and statuary of Key West Cemetery: all those above-ground tombs, and also, quite surprising to us, many very large reptiles crawling around the kingdom of the dead as if they owned it.
Tibetan skull beads.
Walk through the cemetery
startled by iguanas.