“There are sorrows keener than these.”

From “The Blue Bowl” by Jane Kenyon:

Silent the rest of the day, we worked,
ate, stared, and slept. It stormed
all night; now it clears, and a robin
burbles from a dripping bush
like the neighbor who means well
but always says the wrong thing.

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