Fairy Coffins

 

did they make

the coffins little

so death could be smaller

or further away?

for fairies you say

found between flowers or weeds

tiny mummified creatures

no larger than clothespins

when the rabbi's infant died on shabbat

it was my father the doctor they called

to make a tiny casket for on such a day

one is forbidden from "work"



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The Smithsonian on Fairy Coffins