The Art of Letting Go
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The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master. …
—Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”
In December 2016, when I lost my close friend the novelist Sydney Blair to a sudden and fatal attack of pancreatitis, my then-83-year-old father tried to console me. “December,” he said, “thins the herd.”
I don’t thin
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn’t hard to master. …
—Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”
In December 2016, when I lost my close friend the novelist Sydney Blair to a sudden and fatal attack of pancreatitis, my then-83-year-old father tried to console me. “December,” he said, “thins the herd.”
I don’t thin
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