Jim Harrison (1937–2016) published numerous books, including Legends of the Fall, Dalva, and Dead Man’s Float (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), his final poetry collection. His work has been translated into two dozen languages.

Photograph by Andy Anderson.

Bag

by Jim Harrison

I lost my medicine bag

from back when I believed

in magic. It’s made from a doe’s stomach

and holds grizzly teeth and claw,

stones from Tibet and the moon

the garden and the beach

where the baby’s ashes are buried.
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