poetry

Joseph O'Brien
Frascati

Paul Stilwell
Hidden in the Open

Paul Stilwell
Through Any Fissure

Gabriel Olearnik
Languedoc

Gabriel Olearnik
Thames

Gabriel Olearnik
Ice Wine

Amanda Glass
The Crown of Red

Eric Kingsepp
leaving and livening

Richard Rodriguez
Enlightenment

John A. Di Camillo
Prayer

Kate Bluett
Triptych

Leah Acosta
A Grief Sublime

Sr. Mary Catherine Vukmanic
April Error

Sr. Mary Catherine Vukmanic
New Love in Spring

Sr. Mary Catherine Vukmanic
Dogwood

Back to Easter 2008

A Grief Sublime
Fecundity of grief
can sow the arsenic seeds of bitterness
or bear the sweeter fruits of peace, relief—
so civilized a crop from wilderness.
A time to plant, a time to reap, a time
to laugh, a time to weep. A grief sublime.

—Leah Acosta

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Lealani Mae (Leah) Acosta is a first-year neurology resident at the University of Virginia Health System.