By — Tom LeGro Tom LeGro By — Anne Azzi Davenport Anne Azzi Davenport Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/weekly-poem-emptiness-falls Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Weekly Poem: ‘Emptiness Falls’ Arts Mar 11, 2013 2:34 PM EDT By Gretel Ehrlich Beginning. Again. But how? Tonight’s perfect moon-slice means we are half here half gone. Down deep sea urchins fatten on corpses and the Missing roll on amnesia’s tides. All summer the body rains sweat and emptiness falls from the standing dead. Cedar. Rice field. Pine. Gretel Ehrlich is best known for her nature and travel writing. She has authored 13 books, including three of poetry. Her most recent book is “Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami,” which was written after disaster struck Japan on March 11, 2011. Watch our recent profile of Ehrlich here. A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue. Donate now By — Tom LeGro Tom LeGro By — Anne Azzi Davenport Anne Azzi Davenport Anne Azzi Davenport is the Senior Producer of CANVAS at PBS News Hour. @Annedavenport
By Gretel Ehrlich Beginning. Again. But how? Tonight’s perfect moon-slice means we are half here half gone. Down deep sea urchins fatten on corpses and the Missing roll on amnesia’s tides. All summer the body rains sweat and emptiness falls from the standing dead. Cedar. Rice field. Pine. Gretel Ehrlich is best known for her nature and travel writing. She has authored 13 books, including three of poetry. Her most recent book is “Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami,” which was written after disaster struck Japan on March 11, 2011. Watch our recent profile of Ehrlich here. A free press is a cornerstone of a healthy democracy. Support trusted journalism and civil dialogue. Donate now