Looking at a thing myriad times

Author: Richard Grossman

With simple language and logic, the poet reverses the universally accepted truths. In 'Marriage' poem, it seems to the surviving partner that death liberated his partner to a happier future. Many stories convince us that life is all about love and here comes this poem.

The titles are on the upper right corner, obscure. Its fun to read the poem and then the title and then the poem with new eyes. The characters - shepherd and the animals, are fixed and so is the stanza format.
The poems move from a aha single line to a whole wonder when they are about specific animals. Here each animal gets its character. The animals are no longer a cluster.