The Veil
Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris is the last resting place of Oscar Wilde, Chopin and Edith Piaf among numerous other luminaries and is an operating crematorium to this day. It was the scene of the massacre of the Communards in 1871, when 147 “fédérés” prisoners were summarily executed by French government troops and thrown into a trench at what is now the Mur des Fédérés at the southern edge of the cemetery… When nature adds its??own commentary, the tombs are given another level of meaning and feeling. The spider-woven veil on this weeping mourner touched me particularly. I hope it does the same for you.