by Joanne Kennedy Frazer
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| From January 2023 to August 2023, inclusive, the UNHCR records that 2,314 people have died or been declared missing at sea on Mediterranean migration routes; the IOM similarly recorded 2,324 deaths or disappearances over the same time. —Wikipedia |
For these burials at sea
the dead are not sewn into sail cloth
No ceremony no one prays over them
Their boat converts to casket
submerges to a mass grave
their last refuge
Joanne Kennedy Frazer (Durham, NC) enjoys spending her silvering years writing poetry and publishing in numerous anthologies, journals, and ezines. She has written two chapbooks. Most recently, Seasonings (Kelsay Press).
