"This is a prayer, inchoate and unfinished, for you, my love, my loss, my lesion, a rosary of words to count out time's illusions, all the minutes, hours, days the calendar compounds as if the past existed somewhere like an inheritance still waiting to be claimed."

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Source : Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.65, Graywolf Press

Dana Gioia

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