For Peggy, on the death of her friend

Featured Image: Joe Netherworld, died January 2020

I:

Do not call me Tiresias:  I am not that seer. I am a mockingbird amidst nightingales, speaking in tongues torn from others.  I have not seen that place beyond the cold river and past the Gates of Onyx. The crows keep their eyes for themselves.

Of course I have had heard the stories. There are so many s…