{"id":2514,"date":"2025-10-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/?p=2514"},"modified":"2025-09-30T21:16:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T01:16:39","slug":"only-your-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/index.php\/2025\/10\/01\/only-your-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Only Your Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"block-6a731a64-0b8a-4410-a12d-42bd43be1629\">By Anna Trevathan, Managing Editor<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"766\" src=\"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/redtree-1200x766.jpg\" alt=\"color corrected photograph of a red tree and ground against a turquoise sky\" class=\"wp-image-2512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/redtree-1200x766.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/redtree-500x319.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/redtree-768x490.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.imaginarygardens.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/redtree.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">&#8220;Backroads of ten mile, Tennessee&#8221; | Bill Trout<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>why can it be only your dead,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>when it is already only your living,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and it is already only your pain&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>you think the only people worth mourning&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>are the people who look and think like you&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>the men who yell for your cause-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>who caused your causation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>you\u2019ll never hear the cries of students<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>that you silence to sound the sirens-&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>for men who wouldn\u2019t do the same for you.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>i know every teardrop, soaked into my memory,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>stapled into my soul, stories worth listening,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>worth memorizing and regurgitating-<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>if you walk the footsteps of a stranger,&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>and listen to the words of your living&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>you\u2019ll begin to learn from your dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anna Trevathan, Managing Editor why can it be only your dead,&nbsp; 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