Today I was in the Sausalito book store Books by the Bay talking to a friend who works there and who was just at the Monet Exhibit at the De Young.  She read a poem to me, one I love, and hearing it read aloud is different than reading it silently and alone.

The poem is: “Monet Refuses the Operation” by Lisel Mueller.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52577/monet-refuses-the-operation-56d231289e6db