In honor of April being "National Poetry Month," a wonderful excerpt from American poet e.e. cummings (1894-1962) about the continuity of life beyond life. Cummings was no stranger to war and its aftermath: he's one of several famous writers and poets who served as ambulance drivers, in his case, in World War I. This snippet of his poem, "since feeling is first," (Cummings was a big fan of unusual capitalization and punctuation) neatly conveys the impact of a life that goes on past its close, in the memory of the survivors left behind. In the right context, these words offer some small comfort, whether you're thinking about your own legacy, or remembering those you love who've gone before you:
"For life's not a paragraph And death I think is no parenthesis."
