THE RECENT WIDOW CONSIDERS THE ALPHABET"

A poem by Barbara Crooker

You get the idea from the title itself: Barbara Crooker's "THE RECENT WIDOW CONSIDERS THE ALPHABET" is going to be a poem that minds its ABCs.

That is, it's going to be an abecedarian poem, of one sort or another. And, like much of what the prolific and award-winning Crooker has written in the past two years, it's going to be about the illness and death …