Andrea Horowitz

at my funeral, please don't read from fine parchment

silenced—
 
letters lie 
between intersections 
of dusty drawers—
clenched fingers
crumpled paper

your ghost-writer  
plagiarized my air
surrounded by fertile
li(n)es 
sterile sounds

their collision   
             
tonight     I sleep 
where we slept
 
hall lights frighten
 
I write 
our obituary
 
you won’t read it 
anyway

Andrea (Andi) Horowitz, an emerging poet who is older than she should be, is a retired English and Drama High School teacher. She graduated from the University of Florida, and lives in Fort Myers Fl. with her husband and their two cairn terriers, BeCa and Bleecker. She can be read in Griffel.