Reprise: Like coffins falling off a truck

David Groff's "Disbelieving These Deaths, I Go to Sit by Lake Hebron"

Originally published on How to Grow a Poem in January 2024.

The interplay of what’s literal and the self-aware metaphors in David Groff’s “Disbelieving These Deaths, I Go to Sit by Lake Hebron” offers the reader one point of fascination in an endlessly fascinating poem.  

But it’s not always easy to say which is which. Or even to know if it’s necessary t…