Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Great Regulars: It may be that we are most alone

when attending funerals, at least that's how it seems to me. By alone I mean that even among throngs of mourners we pull back within ourselves and peer out at life as if through a window. David Baker, an Ohio poet, offers us a picture of a funeral that could be anybody's.

Afterwards

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 133

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