Just Beyond Reason

Poems by Patrick Brancaccio

For Ruth

 
  Jean's Gone

and now
Jean's gone
and her mother calls
to ask if I have
any of her writing
she left so many
unfinished pieces
and J.S. says
you shouldn't
get attached
to people
and over the
phone
D. D. reads
me an obit
and I say
I'm glad
you found out
about the poetry
prize.