I can't even write

to William

about the news

from Belleville

and Granite City.

Where I couldn't

find any thing

about my

grandfather

nothing that said

loving husband

of _____or

survived by

__________

and my father's

name would be on

that list.

It might have run

yesterday

'cause he's in the box

today.

Nose:

the plastic keel

of an overturned

flesh-colored boat.

Points out the open

box top

The guy in the box doesn't look like grandpa,

but many of the men here look like the guy in the box.

I see his reflection all over his sons,

in the way they look at the guy in the box.