Every Morning By Jake St. John

Every morning 

I pass the graveyard 

where grandparents 

aunts and uncles

cousins 

friends

even strangers

I've never met

all lay eternal 

under sometimes 

blue sky 

today gray 

as I make 

my own way 

to work 

and I'll do this 

repeatedly 

beneath a kind sun

until I join them 

or maybe luck 

breaks for me

and who knows 

what the end is 

but I know 

all roads lead there 

even yours.

   

Jake St. John lives in the woods on the edge of the Salmon River. He is the author of several collections of poetry including Ring of Fog (Holy and Intoxicated Publications, 2022), Night Full of Diamonds (Whiskey City Press, 2021), and Lost City Highway (A Jabber Publication, 2019). He is the editor of Elephant and is considered an original member of the New London School of poetry. His poems have appeared in print and online journals around the world.