appears three times
on the stone.
One of many
memorials in Abbo's Alley
honoring a beloved
Sewanee son or daughter,
this one reads
1982-2001,
Class of 2005.
Despite the rules
against picking flowers,
someone has strewn
a spring bouquet
across his name,
a stranger, probably,
like me, out for a walk
and then drawn
to sit a moment
by the fish pond.
May she or he
have thought as I did
of the young man
remembered here
before walking on.
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