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At Nelson Algren’s gravesite in Sag Harbor, NY.<\/em>
[Photo: Colin Asher, 2014]<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
AT THE GRAVESITE<\/i><\/font>\n\nWe weep \nto leave behind \nthe sun \nlightly pencilled in, \nnothing left of the eternal. \n\nBetween hope and despair\nthe perfume of compassion\ngoes by many names \u2014\nchiseled and inscribed,\nbracketed and tense.\n\nNothing ends \nlike cold hard numbers. \nWe are still \nonly small animals. <\/strong><\/font>\n\n\u2014JH<\/em><\/strong>\n\nWith words courtesy of A. Robert Lee, Malcolm Ritchie, William 'Cody' Maher, Gerard Bellaart, and Sigmund Freud.<\/em>\n\n<\/pre>\n\n\n\n
Cold Turkey Press sees it this way, with a card to be published in a limited edition.<\/p>\n\n\n
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We weep
\nto leave behind
\nthe sun
\nlightly pencilled in,
\nnothing left of the eternal. …
\nWe are still
\nonly small animals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":45842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18,4,23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-45849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-literature","8":"category-main","9":"category-news","10":"category-political-culture","11":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/jan-nelsons-headstone-cropped-copy.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-bVv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45849"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62334,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45849\/revisions\/62334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}