Thought for the Week: The gravestones

'The gravestones' by Elizabeth Burns was written for Lancaster Meeting's Heritage Open Day

by Elizabeth Burns 11th October 2013

Gathered from the grass around the Meeting house, the gravestones are laid together here, huddled close, slab against slab, face upwards,  lapping up the sun and rain of so many years, covered sometimes with blown leaves or snow, their carved letters and numbers filling with moss.