Kenyon, Jane : What Came to Me

Art

Literature Annotations

Genre	Poem
Keywords	Grief, Mourning
Summary	A very short poem, in which the speaker, sorting through old china, finds a dead friend/relative's gravy boat "with a hard, brown / drop of gravy still / on the porcelain lip." This discovery leads the speaker to truly grieve the loss of this person in a way she hadn't before.
Source	Otherwise: New and Selected Poems
Publisher	Graywolf
Edition	1996
Place Published	Saint Paul, Minn.
Alternate Source	The Boat of Quiet Hours
Alternate Publisher	Graywolf
Alternate Edition	1986
Place Published	Saint Paul, Minn.
Annotated by	Dittrich, Lisa R.
Date of Entry	10/21/96