Hoosier Burial

yellow dress     yellow hat           twinkling eyes
                 red blood

white lilies     blackened uterus     elderly eyes
                 childlike fear

blue scrubs      sterile steel        outdated magazines
                 stifling room

                 The womb 
                 that bore 
                 my father
                 extracted,
                 incinerated
                 with the flesh
                 of strangers.

white morphine   empty eyes           yellow leaves
                 Hoosier burial