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Cynthia Ford's avatar

a poem for you all, from Louise Gluck, who died of cancer this week

The Undertaking

Louise Glück

The darkness lifts, imagine, in your lifetime.

There you are—cased in clean bark you drift

through weaving rushes, fields flooded with cotton.

You are free. The river films with lilies,

shrubs appear, shoots thicken into palm. And now

all fear gives way: the light

looks after you, you feel the waves’ goodwill

as arms widen over the water; Love,

the key is turned. Extend yourself—

it is the Nile, the sun is shining,

everywhere you turn is luck.

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New York Post

Sherika De Armas, who represented Uruguay in the Miss World competition in 2015, has died. She was 26.

Local media reported she died last week after a two-year cervical cancer battle. Friends and family paid emotional tribute to the brunette beauty queen.

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