<div class="line">*</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Weeping, weeping, weeping.</div>
<div class="line">No wonder the oceans are full</div>
<div class="line">No wonder the seas are rising.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">It’s not the beloved’s fault.</div>
<div class="line">Dying is part of the story.</div>
<div class="line">It’s not your fault either:</div>
<div class="line">Tears are also.</div>
<div class="line5">But</div>
<div class="line">You can’t read when you’re</div>
<div class="line">Crying. Sobbing, you won’t</div>
<div class="line">Hear the song that resurrects</div>
<div class="line">The body of the beloved.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">Why not rest awhile? If weeping</div>
<div class="line">Is one of the world’s tasks,</div>
<div class="line">It doesn’t lack adherents.</div>
<div class="line">Someone will take your place,</div>
<div class="line">Someone will weep for you.</div>


What We Were Told

Praise Dance

Weeping, Weeping, Weeping

<p class="title">*</p>
<div class="line">When you’re afraid</div>
<div class="line">You’re afraid</div>
<div class="line">Of something.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">When you dread,</div>
<div class="line">It’s Nothing</div>
<div class="line">That you dread</div>
<div class="line">(so the philosopher</div>
<div class="line">said).</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line2">Nothing</div>
<div class="line">Can be</div>
<div class="line">Terrifying.</div>
<div class="line">But don’t get</div>
<div class="line">Confused: a blank</div>
<div class="line">Page in the Book</div>
<div class="line">Isn’t Nothing.</div>
<div></div>
<div class="line">It’s something</div>
<div class="line">Waiting to happen,</div>
<div class="line">It’s the beloved</div>
<div class="line">Holding her breath,</div>
<div class="line">Hoping you’ll write or call.</div>


Think. Wait. Fast.

To My Uncle Who Is in Prison for Robbing Banks

When You’re Afraid…

<div class="line">
<p class="author">Gregory Orr</p>
<p class="title">*</p>
<p class="stanza">
<div class="line">Could it all be said in a single poem</div>
<div class="line">And not be completely cryptic?</div>
<div class="line">There’s Issa’s haiku about</div>
<div class="line">His daughter’s death:</div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p class="stanza">
<div class="line">“This world of dew</div>
<div class="line">is only a world of dew.</div>
<div class="line">And yet, ah, and yet …”</div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p class="stanza">
<div class="line">How the two lines seem to accept</div>
<div class="line">That life is ephemeral</div>
<div class="line">And then that last:</div>
<div class="line">A cry of quiet anguish.</div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p class="stanza">
<div class="line">Accept, but protest. Yield,</div>
<div class="line">Then resist.</div>
<div class="line4">The heart</div>
<div class="line">Would have it both ways.</div>
<div class="line">To see the world and say it true</div>
<div class="line">Means starting with loss.</div>
<div class="line">But that’s not what the heart wants,</div>
<div class="line">That’s not where the saying stops.</div>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p class="epil"><em>For Sam Hamill</em></p>
</div>


ZEPHYR by Susan Browne

Where Squaws Harvested Flowers For Food

Could It All Be Said…

<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">TRISHA ORR: “These paintings were generated in response to an invitation to collaborate with my husband, the poet Gregory Orr, for an exhibit entitled ‘Love Letter Invitational’ at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. The exhibit consisted of collaborative works done by writers and artists on the subject of ‘love.’ Greg and I had been asked to work in collaboration twice before, and each time he’d written poems based on my still life paintings. This time, we decided to reverse the process, so I would make paintings in response to his poems. I decided to incorporate the text of the poem or portions of the text into the painting. I used loosely constructed grids and tried to find the color and light and weight of the words in each poem. I wanted the language to be legible, but I reconfigured the line breaks to make compositions that were visually balanced. The texts of the paintings come from Greg’s two most recent books, Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved and How Beautiful the Beloved.”</p>
</blockquote>
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What Teachers Make

AMERICA IS HIDING UNDER MY BED

Loss and More Loss

<blockquote>
<p style="text-align: justify;">TRISHA ORR: “These paintings were generated in response to an invitation to collaborate with my husband, the poet Gregory Orr, for an exhibit entitled ‘Love Letter Invitational’ at the Second Street Gallery in Charlottesville, Virginia. The exhibit consisted of collaborative works done by writers and artists on the subject of ‘love.’ Greg and I had been asked to work in collaboration twice before, and each time he’d written poems based on my still life paintings. This time, we decided to reverse the process, so I would make paintings in response to his poems. I decided to incorporate the text of the poem or portions of the text into the painting. I used loosely constructed grids and tried to find the color and light and weight of the words in each poem. I wanted the language to be legible, but I reconfigured the line breaks to make compositions that were visually balanced. The texts of the paintings come from Greg’s two most recent books, <em>Concerning the Book That Is the Body of the Beloved</em> and <em>How Beautiful the Beloved</em>.”</p>
</blockquote>
<p style="text-align: center;"><em>Click the image to view a larger version:</em></p>
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