Pyre Stories

We took you to the shore in secret,body carefully bundled upon fruitwood,a pyre blazed and lapped near the watersof the same ocean that claimed my love. Before that we covered you in oils, perfumes, salts, and more wine than you had ever consumedto carry with you beyond the ether,all else ephemeral and given to ash. Proof that flesh does not matter to the element engulfing it. The fire would render your heart nakedas if i...