by Holly Day
Thousands of years from now, the dead bodies we leave behind
will have turned to lye and eaten their way through the earth. Great
caverns
will spread beneath our cemeteries as bodies melt through caskets
as empty and huge as the cathedrals crumbling aboveground.
Small creatures will find their way into these caverns, their descendants
slowly becoming blind with each new generation. Pools of water
filled with eyeless fish and newts will spread through the tunnels
perhaps still carrying traces of embalming fluid and lead.