“Elderly friends take lovers, rent studios,
plan trips to unpronounceable provinces.
Fifty makes the ironic wager
that his biographer will outlive him—”
From “Days of 1994: Alexandrians” by Marilyn Hacker, a poem in TYR’s archives, originally published in 1996:
A poem by Marilyn Hacker: “Lunch at the end of the twentieth century: / death, like a hanger-on or a wannabe, / sits with us at the cluttered bistro /…
