Row upon row
Row upon row
Name
Rank
Theater of war
Year of birth
Year of death
A life of decades in chiseled haiku
One life. A life of tens of thousands of hours—
moments of love and loss,
ecstasy and despair,
courage and fear,
boredom and joy,
—the million moments that make one life
That one life
now multiplied and memorialized in marble
Row upon row
Row upon row
The sacred made nondescript
Row upon row
Row upon row
A quiet march of silenced ranks
having served
serving still
Row upon row
Row upon row
Granolativity 