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.