To friends behind a border

Recited while waiting in Pound Hall at the Harvard Law School waiting for someone to graduate after school-specific ceremonies have gone awry due to torrential downpour ...

Robert Pinsky, Derek Walcott, Adam Zagajewski: Poetry and Empire https://www.bu.edu/european/files/2014/12/Chapter1_Layout-1.pdf https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/czeslaw-milosz https://poets.org/poet/robert-pinsky Pinsky, R. (2012) Selected poems. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

By Tomas Transömer

https://poets.org/poem/widows-lament-springtime https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-carlos-williams

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56508/bottled-water https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kim-dower

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-duncan https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46321/childhoods-retreat https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46317/often-i-am-permitted-to-return-to-a-meadow

Gluck, L. (1996). The Wild Iris. ECCO Press.https://pankmagazine.com/2013/02/12/books-we-cant-quit-the-wild-iris-by-louise-gluck-a-review-by-rachel-mennies/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/11/10/fathers-old-blue-cardigan

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55799/moon-56d237b984e78 https://kathleenjamie.com/ https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/kathleen-jamie

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/154631/elegy-for-mother-still-living https://www.elanabell.com/about