By John Brehm

Featured Image: Clouds and Rainbows, Jamaica by Frederic Edwin Church 1865

Time heals all wounds
except those
it

in-
flicts—and in
time even those.

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John Brehm is the author of three books of poetry, most recently No Day at the Beach, and a volume of essays, The Dharma of Poetry. He’s the editor of The Poetry of Impermanence, Mindfulness, and Joy and the associate editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

Originally appeared in NOR 7