Great Regulars: That's partly what the poem

is about. The rain is for me the astonishing dailiness of all this death, so much of it from war and violence.

I used some Iraqi women's names because that's what I thought about, the women there who were dying and losing their loved ones. And the four American soldiers were listed in the San Francisco Chronicle that day, part of the ongoing body count.

from The Washington Post: Poet's Choice: 'November 11 --2004' by Kim Addonizio

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