A speaker reflects on a life for which the foundation should be orderly and stable, that has been shaken by the death of a child. Can their lives end well? Yes. He places their lives, and their son’s, in the perspective of circumstances both common and uncommon: time, a winter landscape, the life and death of someone who insisted that no one be able to find his grave. (No one has.)

John Romagna has loved poetry since a high school teacher asked him to study Yeats. He experienced our need for powerful language. Writing helps him keep strong connections with family, friends and other writers. He lives in New Jersey with his wife, a landscape painter. He reads Mary Oliver for inspiration.

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