Sketching a Present

Text of section XII here.Text of section XIII here.Text of section XIV here. These text three section continue the super-section that imagines the journey of

Text of section IX here.Text of section X here.Text of section XI here. These sections begin the long super-section of In Memoriam that imagines A.H.H.’s

Text of section VII here.Text of section VIII here. Sec. VII reminds me of the image of Love and Grief grasping one another “lest both

Text of section V here.Text of section VI here. Sec. V: a self-reflexive song that recalls the Prologue’s plea for forgiveness. But it also responds

Text of section II here.Text of section III here.Text of section IV here. Three remarkable sections that give three very different textures to the speaker’s grief:

Text of section I here. A heartbreaking and heartbroken lyric that looks to grief as a way to sustain a feeling (?) that seems vulnerable