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Widowed
“
A man is little use when his wife’s a widow. Scottish proverb
”
― Inspector Morse: The First Three Novels
― Inspector Morse: The First Three Novels
“
Not the Happiness but the Consequence of Happiness
He wakes up in the silence of the winter woods,
the silence of birds not singing, knowing he will
not hear his voice all day. He remembers what
the brown owl sounded like while he was sleeping.
The man wakes in the frigid morning thinking
about women. Not with desire so much as with a sense
of what is not. The January silence is the sound
of his feet in the snow, a squirrel scolding,
or the scraping calls of a single blue jay.
Something of him
...more
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― Refusing Heaven: Poems
― Refusing Heaven: Poems
