This poem, which appeared near the beginning of “Firstborn,” Glück’s 1968 debut ... let them/bury me with the Romantics,/their pointed yellow leaves/falling and covering me.” ...

This is the world I mean. The one where I lie down next to you and the earth fills with the sound of rain. Kathryn Hunt lives in Port Townsend, Wash. A collection of her poems, "Long Way through ...