Published in the collection The Immediate and No Sooner, 2021.
At My Cousin’s Funeral
Steered the old boat just a little too wide.
Running late. Managed to land her curbside.
Drat. I did hope to gloat but the graveside
cryfest is just wrapping up. Cyanide
convinces. Call it art, not homicide.
2/14/20
10-10-10-10-10/5
Claudia McGill Writes Poetry, Did You Know That? 
This is another one of your marvelous snapshots of a moment in time that is so suggestive of a wider narrative.
Thank you. And you know my bent toward the darker side of human nature is coming out here. I sort of see a feckless heir, and how did he get to be an heir, his own efforts? Another’s? Wishfull thinking coming true???