I posted the work on my Wordpress blog Cinder-Bay.
https://cinderbay.wordpress.com/2018/01/08/pretend-grave/
Yes, I have permission to re-publish the work in Toyon because the blog is my personal site

Tennery, Bailey M

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Toyon Literary Magazine Volume 66 Issue 1 Toyon Volume 66: Exploring the Taboo Article 6 2020 Imaginary Grave Bailey M. Tennery Humboldt State University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/toyon  Part of the Creative Writing Commons, Pain Management Commons, and the Personality and Social Contexts Commons Recommended Citation Tennery, Bailey M. (2020) "Imaginary Grave," Toyon Literary Magazine: Vol. 66 : Iss. 1 , Article 6. Available at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/toyon/vol66/iss1/6 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. It has been accepted for inclusion in Toyon Literary Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Humboldt State University. For more information, please contact kyle.morgan@humboldt.edu. TOYON  13A grave site is the place I’ll go when I miss you. I’ll talk to the memory of you; no better place to mourn than a field where hundreds of dead are buried, side by side, systematically.I’ll go to a graveside, but won’t sit in front of a specific slab of stone because your name is not on one. You’re alive, but it’s easier to pretend you’re dead when I want to remember the good person you once were.I’ll place purple tulips on the maintained grass and sit for hours telling you my troubles, joys, and humorous tales. When I’m done spilling my heart to an imaginary grave, I’ll walk away, leaving the flowers to wither.When I want to feel close to you, I’ll return again to dead tu-lips and pretend you were never a stranger, pretend you are dead, and pretend I still love you. Imaginary GraveBailey M. Tennery

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