the discount burial

they went cheap

on the grave, so now we can't

find her.

she's somewhere

over there,

not far from that tree.

or maybe

it was up the hill a little.

no marker,

no stone, no bench.

maybe they have a map

in the office.

a grid

of bodies underground.

it was the discount

burial.

a box, a hole in the ground,

a canopy

for the sun.

between the hours of

two and three.

then done.