darker into the restfulness of the earth; the sound becomes
grey to black, heavier down under.
One night the grave digger could hear the drops of
moonlight dripping like melted butter on the crushing
waves of the sea. But the moondrops froze the moment
they touched the foaming waves.
That night, he was digging an emergency grave under the
supervision of influential people and police. There was a
scandalous murmur; Sound of some errant footsteps
dissolved in the hissing sea-soaked sand. The unidentified
corpse lay bare. No coffin could margin its relentless
loneliness and silence.
After the grave had been dug hurriedly along with his team,
he was asked to help them in dropping down the corpse
into the overflowing emptiness of the grave.
When he uplifted the naked corpse, her thick curly clumsy
tresses hung down and laced against his old wrinkled arms.
He knew from the touch that those were clumsy curls, like
wisps of smoke.
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