What Came to Me

I took the last
dusty piece of china
out of the barrel.
It was your gravy boat,
with a hard, brown
drop of gravy still
on the porcelain lip.
I grieved for you then
as I never had before.
— Jane Kenyon

Poem and art at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ, founded by artist and philanthropist Seward Johnson (April 16, 1930 – March 10, 2020). Shared by Edible Jersey in memory of the lives lost over the past year.

Jane Kenyon, “What Came to Me” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1986, 2005 by Jane Kenyon and The Estate of Jane Kenyon.
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