"[G]rief is distributed

between you, among all your kind, for me

to know you, as deep blue

marks the wild scilla, white

the wood violet."

-"April" by Louise Glück

Emily Bobo is the author of Fugue published by Lost Horse Press. She teaches in the English department at Ivy Tech Community College in Bloomington, Indiana.

Note: The Accord Final is a bronze sculpture of a destroyed grand piano by French-Amercian artist Arman Fernandez.