Grief is very singular and specific, yet universal; we all experience loss. And in this — love and loss, the most universal of topics — we walk alone, carrying the most familiar and painful of sorrows.
She was old, she had a good life.
Copyright © 2017 by Kim Dower. Reprinted with permission.
from New and Selected Poems by Michael Ryan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005). Reprinted with permission.