Re-Blog: Elegy for a Drowned Girl

Exquisitely painful and beautiful.

For a moment, echoes over the ocean sound your obituary — these jagged cliffs are your gravestones, and perhaps the algae the rolling waves offer to the shoreline is the water’s apology. For sending your casket deep into the corals. For seasoning the ocean salty with your panic. For surging your lifeless limbs away from […]

via Elegy for a Drowned Girl – Gari Eberly — Green Ink

6 thoughts on “Re-Blog: Elegy for a Drowned Girl”

Casket deep in the corals…when people have sea burial, I wonder about this. Beautiful and disturbing.

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Will Pennington says:

April 10, 2017 at 13:32

I’ve never seen a casket slipped over the side. Most burials these days are of ashes. I’ve seen plenty of ashes blown inboard instead of out to sea.
Darn wind! (Ewwwwww)

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