VIEWING (For Cooper Mardesich, 2004-2008)

Death’s Inn must be a lovely place
With such a perfect Guest.
For such prestigious innocence
God must reserve the Best.

He has to save the finest rooms
For angels’ Residence.
With such prodigious purity
There must be Precedence.

(August 27, 2008, Pleasant Grove, Utah)

BOISE (to Mary Ellen Ryder)

April was in our singer’s word,
And Júly in her voice we heard.
Now in August, we remember,
And in our heart, blue September.

(August 27, 2008, Pleasant Grove, Utah)