James Richardson is the author of numerous poetry collections, including
Within the Hour: Poems and Aphorisms, 1971–2026 (Copper Canyon Press, 2026), By the Numbers: Poems and Aphorisms, and During, winner of the Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. Among his honors are the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Emily Dickinson Award, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in New Jersey with his wife and is Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing at Princeton University.

Very Late

An iPoem

by James Richardson

Even our tenderest

buds and shoots
(though we are pained)
endure unharmed

People on couch

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