It was a rough week in the Podcast Casa (podcasa?) as my wife and I had to say goodbye unexpectedly to one of our cats and her uncle. So I talk about elegies--why I wanted a particular mood in reading them this week--and land on an excerpt from Kevin Young's The Book of Hours (no good link to the excerpt at the moment) and Edna St. Vincent Millay's "Ebb." Lavender and Jack, we miss you.