But Is Only the Third for Now

The dead may have three kinds of houses.
One kind’s living, beings as they were,
Bodies descended from dead bodies.

The dead may also dwell in culture,
In languages, monuments, and texts,
In all those sorts of inheritance,

And the dead find a third residence,
Open to them all, with or without
Descendants, the liquid nesting dolls

Of small ways of speaking and living
Inside of anyone living now,
The most haunted kind of house of all,

The phenomenon of a person
Who may find three kinds of houses soon.