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Work and Days named one of the best books of poetry of 2016 by the New York Times
HER BOOKS LAST WEST AND RIFT ZONE ARE NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE

Terrain: One Poem By Danusha Laméris from Leaning Toward Light

September 5, 2023

Working in the Garden, I Think of My Son

Who is nothing, now, but a few fistfuls of ash. Not even that, since ash

dissolves and is taken into the bodies of plants, or swept into the air

on the wind. He’s so very fine he slips undetected

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