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    What Poetry Can Predict

    by Naja Marie Aidt Oct 09, 2019 4 minutes

    Naja Marie Aidt’s When Death Takes Something from You Give It Back is an account of the first few years after her twenty-five-year-old son Carl died in a tragic accident. The excerpt below is addressed to him.

    Photo: Amanda Hill. Credit: the NOAA Weather in Focus Photo Contest 2015.

    My first book, a poetry collection, was published in 1991. I wrote it when you were a baby. I wrote it as I nursed you, as I rocked you, as I got to know you, as you learned to crawl and walk. There’s a poem in the book in which I describe a dream I

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