semantikon feature literature
Feb. 2004
Bess Rose Miller
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A poetess of some seven decades, Bess Rose Miller has worked as a teacher, edited and help produce Midfest Writing collections and has championed writing through her involvement with Middletown Poetry Circle, her essays and spekaing engagements on writing.
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bess rose miller, poet, lecturer, middletown ohio, cincinnati ohio, from kentucky roots, poetry
After the Eulogy

Even the trees shrink back
blown by cutting winds
ignoring the spot of earth--
bare, against the frozen ground.

"Let all who enter here
abandon hope..."?
White sentinels guard
the violated soil.

"Remember him
the way he was..."
well-meaning voices say.
But to remember only this
is to deny
the wounding of the earth today.