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Monday, October 18, 2021

Jean Valentine


MEMORIAM


Elegy For Jane Kenyon

Jane is big
with death, Don
sad and kind - Jane
though she's dying
is full of mind

We talk about the table
the little walnut one
how it's like
Emily Dickinson's

But Don says No
Dickinson's
was made of iron. No
said Jane
Of flesh.
By Rodney Phillips at October 18, 2021
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