Tag: death

• Turnings

  After Elizabeth Alexander.

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  December 12, 2025

  ars poetica, death, fear, In Memoriam, life, Poetry, student, teaching, Tennyson

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• An Epitaph

  At the Wissahickon Valley Park.

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  October 31, 2025

  bliss, death, epitaph, Philadelphia, Photography, Poetry, Wissahickon

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• Northeast (II)

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  October 7, 2025

  asthma, childhood, death, inspiration, life, manhattan, memoir, memory, New York, Poetry, St. Vincent Hospital

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• Elegy for a Sparrow

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  August 18, 2025

  death, elegy, Music, Philadelphia, Poetry, sparrow

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• Fission

  A break in the routine.

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  April 7, 2025

  atoms, death, people, physics, Poetry, power, violence

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• Spring (I)

  On the changing seasons.

  

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  March 30, 2025

  cemetery, death, drought, dryness, dust, heat, Poetry, spring, water

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• Consumption

  On the dead and the living.

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  February 27, 2025

  consumption, death, hunger, life, Poetry, sonnet

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• Proof of Life

  On existence.

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  December 18, 2024

  alive, death, existence, life, Poetry

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• Islands

  For the late Derek Walcott.

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  November 21, 2024

  death, Derek Walcott, islands, love, Poetry, rhymed verse, sailor, sonnet, traveling, waves

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• Bedouin

  Down the shore, in winter.

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  October 20, 2024

  Atlantic, beach, death, life, Poetry, shadow, shadows, tides, water, winter

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