Kind sir: I feel as if I know you, having
\nmet your boy Kim, and your daughters
\nKit and Barbara. I missed Bret, sad to say.
\nI know you missed him, too, with that feeling
\nof grief, as you put it, like snow in Wyoming.<\/p>\n
Your Dorothy cheered me more than I could ever
\ntell you, but I know you could close your eyes
\nand see her smile. Helen, too, gave Kim such
\nencouragement to go on, without you and Bret.<\/p>\n
Ah, what a group, what a tribe. And your poems,
\nso familiar to me now, but always fresh. I lean forward,
\nstraining to hear what the river says, no matter how
\noften I read, \u201cSometime when the river is ice, ask me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Your elephants holding tails, your purification of the
\nlanguage, the call you made to Kansas, years after
\nyour folks were dead. Kim gives me your jacket
\nto wear, to cut the chill of Colorado Springs at 3 am.<\/p>\n
We walk and talk about you, so recently dead, the
\nglass of milk you were drinking when the heart attack
\nhit. It might still be sitting on the counter, except there
\nwas no time for that. You let it go. You let it all go<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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