Grief takes funny forms,
as we know, and when

a link arrived to a Peter Yarrow
video singing new lyrics

to his famous tune about how
the song of Puff came to be

(before, Yarrow says, he knew
about marijuana, so no, it’s not

that kind of puff), I didn’t yet
know that he’d died. But, still,

I found myself in tears
watching his face as familiar

as an old friend, especially
when he sings that Puff’s

no longer lonely, that little
Jackie Paper’s daughter visits,

“and the story has a happy end.”
I so hope that his did, too.

•••

With gratitude to the memory of Peter Yarrow,
as well as to still-with-us Paul Stookey
and the late Mary Travers, for all the music…
especially Puff.