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Read in: Entropy Magazine

Author: Don Krieger
Reader: Don Krieger
Language: English

The Laugh with the Lilt

The Laugh with the Lilt
Dr. Jannette Goddard-Finegold, 1948 - 2019

Fifty years
since we spoke
since we laughed together

We planned to meet again.
I read her poetry
She read mine
She died last Sunday.

My parents are gone,
a sister, a wife

those others
I guarded with my skill
but could not save

and Denise
her brilliance, her quickness
her kindness

and that delighted laugh
at her own work
The Day the Audience Walked Out on Me,
and Why.

1973 Reading -- Denise Levertov

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