A Poem by Jason Gray

The Day after Easter

Today the redbuds
Sublimated
Into wisteria.
It was time to burn
Our accumulations.

We missed, again,
The disoccupation,
Graveclothes folded,
Quarks rearranged,
The quiet “Mary.”

Before the roses
Dishevel, let us
Carry our ashes
Into the lake
Without a bottom.

Jason Gray is the author of Radiation King and Photographing Eden, as well as two chapbooks, How to Paint the Savior Dead and Adam & Eve Go to the Zoo. His poems have been featured in Poetry, Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Image, and elsewhere.