"Here end my tracks of passion, reason, rhyme ..."

From "Take My Hand, Anna K.," the last poem in "Ants on the Melon," the book of poetry published by Virginia Hamilton Adair in 1996, when she was 83. The book made a big sensation because it was good and because she'd written poems all her life with almost no publications. Adair died on Thursday.

Here end my tracks of passion, reason, rhyme

Before the terminal rush and roar of light,

All together under the wheels of Time.

Coming to a crossing the train cries in the night.

Here's the NYT obituary.