February 2002 Issue - Essay # 3
Cemetery
Walk
By Billie A. Williams
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Early morning is the best time for a walk, especially in the spring. The air is full of bird sounds and little else. The smell is heavy dew. My feet "chus, chus, chus" on the gravel. My mind drinks in the sights, sounds, and has a tendency to awaken my muse--I will not allow it for this morning is meditation in motion. I'm the only one here as I walk in the cemetery and see all the "trophies" my little niece calls them. Are they rewards for a life well lived I wonder? Do they know who visited, or what they had to say? I've often wondered if they can feel the grief of those that lost them. Do we comfort ourselves by speaking to them? Or do they, indeed, wait for our words to speed heavenward? The cemetery is gray stones, in all shades, shapes and sizes: some brown and red-brown monuments are spattered here and there--names reading like a German role call with Swiss and Italian thrown in occasionally. Plastic flowers, silk flowers, and a live plant that survived splash a memory on dark colored background. I note some are remembered, some not. Are those the last of a line, or perhaps the family has moved away? Or maybe there was a rift that was never resolved and now can't be for eternity. Old Maples and older pines shade the long gone sleepers, and Robins find good picking among the stones and tears-wept moist ground. I go home from my morning walk as they already have, long ago.
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Author's Biography Billie A. Williams is a fiction, poetry and nonfiction writer. She has published in Mystery Time, a Hutton Publication, and recently won the book review contest on the Patricia Lewin site with her review of Stephen King's two books on the writing craft. She has published in various web zines and print publications. A list of publications is also available on her web site at http://ww.wordcrafter.worldbreak.com E-mail Billie at talacara43@centurytel.net
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