What are the uses of elegy? To confirm that loss is real, that individual disappearance matters; that the rupture in the known world is pointed to, held up for attention, shared.

~ Mark Doty, excerpt from “Can Poetry Console A Grieving Public?” Poetry Foundation

. . . Come and see the blood in the streets,
come and see
the blood in the streets,
come and see the blood
in the streets!

~ Pablo Neruda, excerpt from “I’m Explaining a Few Things”