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Christmas (1988)

Christmas (1988)

Sarah Henning

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Today's poem is by Sarah Henning

Christmas (1988)

She has never held any hierarchy of grief . . .
which seems to me nothing less than a form of enlightenment.

—Maggie, Nelson, Bluets

The sadness will last forever.
—Vincent van Gogh

Memorial Park, Athens, GA

Before I knew the word yearning, I knew sadness
rising in my body like one of Stein's hurt colors. I knew my mother
cutting into the driveway, cigarette smoke silking her

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