The New Criterion published George Green’s poem, “Rose Poe.” I’m not sure what to make of it. It’s a vignette perhaps. Here’s the open:

Rose Poe was homeless after Richmond fell,

abandoned by the millionaire MacKenzies,

whose ward she’d been for over fifty years.

She spent her days down at the railroad depot

trying to sell some faded photographs

of her unhappy brother, Edgar Allan,

now long deceased, the author of “The Raven.”

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