Romana Iorga
A Perfect Tombstone Has No Name
The promise of a name hovers above it
like the finger of a dying deity—
the unnecessary gesture of blessing
when no one is left alive.
The tombstone is thick
with shadows, thick with memories
of death when it was young.
A perfect tombstone has no past, no future.
Its present is eternal, its mossy comfort
never shaken.
It sinks into the earth
at the perfect angle of forgetting.
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Romana Iorga is the author of Temporary Skin, a poetry collection recently accepted for publication by Glass Lyre Press. A multilingual writer whose work has been inspired by different countries, cultures, and landscapes, she has an MFA from the University of Minnesota. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in various journals, including New England Review, Lake Effect, and The Nation, as well as on her poetry blog at clayandbranches.com.
