For Allen Ginsberg

By Dorothea Grossman

Among other things,

thanks for explaining

how the generous death

of old trees

forms

the red powdered floor

of the forest.

Source: Poetry (March 2010)

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Dorothea "Dottie" Grossman lived in Los Angeles for over 30 years. Poetry magazine awared her its J. Howard and Barbara M. J. Wood Prize in 2010. Grossman wrote about her poems, “I like to think [they] are honest and that they connect me with my fellow...

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