Two Songs for Hedli Anderson   by W. H. Auden A Meeting   by Wendell Berry Poem 389   by Emily Dickinson Memory of My Father   by Patrick Kavanagh Otherwise   by Jane Kenyon From Blossoms   by Li-Young Lee Fare well   by Federico García Lorca Elegy for the Monastery Barn   by Thomas Merton Dirge without Music   by Edna St. Vincent Millay No Goodbyes   by Paul Monette The Dependencies   by Howard Nemerov The Dying Belt, Douglas Paschall Gone   by Reynolds Price The Golden Gate   by Vikram Seth Sonnet XXX   by William Shakespeare Allies   by Akili Tyson Another Dog's Death   by John Updike The Widow's Lament in Springtime   by William Carlos Williams Italics, Mine   by Greg Williamson The Old Men Used to Sing   by Alice Walker To One Shortly to Die   by Walt Whitman