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Vignette - No Ceremony
Dramatis Personae Parley
In Absentia	2013-07-26 So let us melt, and make no noise
Location <NYC> 603 {Greyhaus} - Village Lofts - East Village
No mourning ceremony to fill funeral pews. Parley on a twin bed, quilt sheets and scissors unspooling newsprint threads off the morning paper. Sunlight cast across bedhead, crumbs in the wet pink corners of either eye. There are no burials, he thinks no ash to ash. Not for us. The clear seran cover of the album page peeled open like a coffin lid No taste for weeping, just coffee nutty, medium roast, the smell in his eyes A headline carved from the spread: SHADOW-WOMAN KILLED IN RAID. Laid to rest beside a pressed violet between folds of memories. Articles on modern science civil rights, a gala, an editorial comic a human interest story about a father that had his children taken from him. He seals the tomb doors with a flip of the book cover. Palm flat against it to hold down the remembrance of a time when the darkness had been kind. The name Audrey Garrett may earn a family tombstone. The name Nox, only this. Then he has to shower and go to work.