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October 13, 2024

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Oh my, just gorgeous…as having been one of the caregivers for several of our Sisters, I found this so moving…the “simplicity” and everyday -ness gives it a beautiful power and humility …thank you Terence and thank you Harry…

the unadorned ego makes this poem sublime.

another one of my favorite poets and poems and posts, thank you harry and terence


Leslie---thanks for your response. 


Michael---thanks for the comment. And for introducing me to Harry's work many years ago.

This reminds me of caregiving and also desperately fear for myself

What a sweet and gentle poem! I knew Harry was a poet and have read on his terrific Harry's Poetry Hour, but I had no idea he was an actor too! And of such acclaim!

Every time I read you Harry, I learn again how to speak the truth. Thank you.

Deeply relevant and touching.

It really hits home.

Harry, you give us the true and selfless measure of one of love's offices rendered without adornment and so eloquently. You done good.

What a beautiful poem, so accurate and clear with its attentiveness and emotionally so completely present. Thank you, Harry, and Terence.

So much tenderness and compassion. Thanks, Harry.


Jim: thanks for your comment.

Breathtaking in it's stark, stunning, and revealing simplicity. Wonderful. Thanks Harry and Terence.

I love this beautiful and tender poem.


Elizabeth---thanks for your comment.

The poem attains a rare intimacy, a tenderness utterly free of sentimentality. It's an objective masterpiece.

Dear Terence,  Thank you for sending me the kindest of comments from Kit Robinson. Could you please put the following on the site under comments since I am unable to do it: First of all, thank you, Terence Winch, for choosing my poem to be on this great site for poetry.  It's one of the nicest things that has happened to me in the poetry world.  I'm thrilled and honored.  Thanks, also, to my friend Michael Lally,  Thanks to each one of you for your good words on my poem.  It's about my late wife Holly Prado.  We shared poetry from morning to night.

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

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