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Spring 1999 • Vol. XXI No. 2 • Poetry |

The Good Grief

Three of us are quoting Father
Hopkins over breakfast, fresh thoughts
care for, can you? the poet breaking
syntax over his knee, dry sticks

for the fire. What heart heard of,
ghost guessed. Young grief and old
from the old griever. We walk out
into the fall morning and there’s

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