Great Regulars: If writers are both skilled and lucky,

they may write something that will carry their words into the future, past the hour of their own deaths. I'd guess all writers hope for this, and the following poem by Peter Cooley, who lives in New Orleans and teaches creative writing at Tulane, beautifully expresses his hope, and theirs.

The One Certain Thing

from Ted Kooser: American Life in Poetry: Column 268

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