Shall I say how it is in your clothes?
A month after your death I wear your blue jacket.
The dog at the center of my life recognizes
you've come to visit, he's ecstatic.
In the left pocket, a hole.
Kumin  has explained: 
 I wrote [this poem] shortly after the suicide of my closest friend, Anne Sexton, and that was in the October of 1974. 

How It Is