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April 14, 2009

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Thanks, Moira. Poignant and lovely.

I agree.

I, too, love this poem. Thank you, Moira.

I failed to comment in April, but will go ahead anyway since the hole that Deborah Digges leaves is permanent. Beautiful and haunting, this poem.We are all the lesser for the loss of her. Thank you, Moira.

Was Deborah published in the New Yorker? I am thinking of a poem of a little boy's birthday: he sits down on the birthday cake...

Another one is about a veterinarian who stops the car when he sees a cow who is in labour; he gets into the meadow and assists the cow...

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