Blessed as We Were by Gerald Stern

Author:Gerald Stern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Epub3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Died in the Mills

Then, fifty dollars for a Hungarian

say a black dress to go to the funeral

and shoes with soles for the three oldest, that leaves

a dollar fifty for the feast but I’d say

what a dollar was worth then you could have

a necktie if you wanted and paprikash

for twenty or thirty and strudel with apples and nuts

and violins—he favored the violin—

and it is not just poets who love meadows

and take their sneakers off and their socks to walk

on the warm rocks and dip their tender white feet

in the burning freezing water and then bend down

precariously to pick up a froglet and sight

the farthest lonely tree and note the wind

moving quickly through the grasses their last summer.

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