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teardrops
on the path
reflect
the moon rising
until
a thick cloud
darkens
the way back.
Jeral Williams is a retired professor and fourth-quarter poet, living in Mobile, Alabama. His first book of poems, Sunset Without Dawn (Negative Capability Press, 2022), explored grief for the loss of a daughter.
Ah, it is evocative of so many potential responses!