This poem is taken from PN Review 63, Volume 15 Number 1, September - October 1988.
Miscarriage
In the year most of the girls
started wearing bright colours,
my youngest daughter wore grey.
She sat up late, reading the paper,
nursing her terrible temper.
A lot of it slips
my mind now, but one night
her beauty slowly dawned on me;
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