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.

She

by Jim Harrison

My wife died in the autumn.
Now on Saturday morning down here
on the Mexican border my housekeeper,
an Apache Tarahumara woman, sings me a lament

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