Light Elegy
for Randall Jarrell
In the book of bells
you rang wringingly
In the great world
left a bookmark
In the light of other poems
still read dark
In your moon of the dark
you read Stygian
Now in libraries
you read not.
Andrew Allport
O. Ayes
Mary Biddinger
Scott Cairns
Jamison Crabtree
Cynthia Cruz
Leia Darwish
Alex Dimitrov
Karen Donovan
Gavin Flood
Karin Gottshall
Chris Haven
Mark Irwin
R. Beth Johnson
Saeed Jones
George Kalamaras
Andrew Kozma
Charles Martin
Brianna Noll
Natalie Peeterse
Saara M. Raappana
Will Schutt
Lauren G. Slaughter
Eleanor Ross Taylor
Daneen Wardrop
Caki Wilkinson
Phillip B. Williams
Terri Witek
Light Elegy
for Randall Jarrell
In the book of bells
you rang wringingly
In the great world
left a bookmark
In the light of other poems
still read dark
In your moon of the dark
you read Stygian
Now in libraries
you read not.