DEATH IS SO SIMPLE
Sudie Nostrand

Death
is so simple.

I thought there’d be trumpets
or banners to announce

a passing, just
a little fuss

at least a little
not just silence

and this unbreachable
barrier.


Sudie Nostrand is the author of Variations and The Paris Poems (both published by March Street Press.) She has work in the Birmingham Poetry Review, Plainsongs, California Quarterly, The Green Hills Literary Lantern, The Greensboro Review, and Poet Lore among others. Her papers are archived in The Fales Library at New York University.