Well Up in the Blessings, by Dan Brown

Well up in the blessings there’s

The blessedness of knowing

That vision, skin, body, brain

Have all started going.

For how it is with death is how

It is with anything:

Easier to accept when it’s

Already happening.

From “Matter: Poems” by Dan Brown. (Crosstown: 53 pp., $9) Copyright 1997 Reprinted by permission.