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(from The Fire)
And you never say
Leave me
since the dead do not like being alone.

(from Baskets):
I ask you, how much beauty
can a person bear? It is
heavier than ugliness, even the burden
of emptiness is nothing beside it.

(from A Fantasy):
The widow sits on the couch, very stately,
so people line up to approach her, (...)

In her heart she wants them to go away.
She wants to be back in the cemetery,
back in the sickroom, the hospital. She knows
it isn't possible. But it's her only hope,
the wish to move backward. And just a little,
not so far as the marriage, the first kiss.