The poem my ­fingers had landed on was called "Goodbye," and it was about someone saying farewell to the world. Right then, I knew I could find peace in his loss.

Brian Turner is the author of the new poetry books “The Wild Delight of Wild Things,” “The Goodbye World Poem” and “The Dead Peasant’s Handbook,” from which this work was derived.

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