ARCTURUS
in Lynnhurst Cemetery, Knoxville, Tennessee
Your grave, 11 year old Marla, with the icon
of your teddy bear – Tubby – your shawabti,
bear-guard, Arcturus. Around you stones for your parents,
your brother and sister, birth dates, Stonehenge,
moon trackers buried alive in Aubrey holes.
And that icon, that bear-guard
may be all you get, may bear’s self be
that true judge, that figure in the round window,
for you, Marla, in your last pajamas,
padding around the Pole with the great she-bear.