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"What Came to Me" from "Otherwise: New & Selected Poems". Copyright 1996 by the Estate of Jane Kenyon with the permission of Greywolf Press, Saint Paul, MN.
By Jane Kenyon, 1947-1995
What Came to Me
I took the last
dusty piece of china
out of the barrel.
It was your gravy boat,
with a hard, brown
drop of gravy still
on the porcelain lip.
I grieved for you then
as I never had before. |