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    TWO POEMS

    Dec 03, 2018 1 minute
    Jeffrey Harrison

    Museum of Fine Arts

    About suffering, the old masters are stillmostly right, though these days images of every lastshooting, terrorist attack, or natural disasterassault our screens, and ignoring them feels criminal ...so that, more appropriate to our current agemight be the paintings where the pain is frontand center, not a splash in the wee distance.

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