Sorrow, by Gaby Bedetti

Violets After Rainfall, by Gaby Bedetti (USA). 2018.

Sorrow
               for Anthony Bourdain, 1956 – 2018

Where tears fall
Low to the ground
Violets grow

Gaby Bedetti
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Gaby Bedetti hikes, takes photos, and sings in several choirs. After grad school, where she co-founded the University of Iowa Museum of Art Bulletin, she started teaching at Eastern Kentucky University.  She married a guy she met at a literature conference in Louisville, and together they raised a couple of kids. Henri Meschonnic's American translator, she has published in such journals as Off the Coast, Italian Americana, and Poet Lore. In June for the past five years she wrote a poem every day for her town’s poetry blog http://lexpomo.com/.  She has poems forthcoming in Aji Review and A Borrowed Solace.