Kicks off from a true story: my wife and I took a hike during this FAWM up along the Rappahannock River. We live in Fredericksburg, Virginia, where almost every location was part of a Civil War battlefield and a potential burying ground. Many of the fallen from both sides were found and reburied in the big cemeteries created after the war. This grave, however, was left alongside the river with no identification of its occupant.

Title from Fitzgerald's 1859 translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

XIX

I sometimes think that never blows so red
The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;
That every Hyacinth the Garden wears
Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head

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