A Grief Sublime

Lent/Easter 2008Poetry
Written by Leah Acosta

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

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

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