Lucy’s Funeral

By: Megan Arkenberg
September 9, 2008

Everyone has a way
they never want to go—drowning,
that’s mine, or falling from heights
or worst of all, fear (not
a sudden death from shock,
but true fear; creeping,
insidious, for months at a time
lacking cause). That was her way.
That was the way she died.
Oh, sure, those holes
in her neck may have helped. I remember