Cemetery Gate, Hager Phipps Cemetery, Cannel City, KY

After entering a kudzu-concealed opening, a steep gravel path climbs to the top
of this Eastern Kentucky mountain clearing where the cemetery is guarded by a lonely gate.
The ornate gate is all that survives of a fence that used to surround the graves.
In my imagination, I can see a reverent black iron fence standing watch over the mountain top cemetery.