midnight hush ...
I, a worker in words
straddle the line
between the abstract, death
and the concrete, aging body
Added:
the brick shack
with boarded windows
facing a graveyard
in gathering dusk
a torn-up chapbook: I AM
FYI: For more about death poems, see "To the Lighthouse: Jisei, Japanese Death Poems" And you can get a free PDF copy of the book here and here is the link to Janine Beichman's detailed review of the book, "Yoel Hoffmann as Japanologist: Japanese Death Poems."