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Untitled [This is what was bequeathed us] (Gregory Orr)

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in response to Brigid

I'm a poetry person but am stumped: poems for a funeral for someone very old after a long-awaited death? everything feels either unserious or too overwrought

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Just one of Orr’s many beautiful poems about love, grief, and the ways we honor those we cherish.

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