David Berman was a formalist's formalist, and I like to think that he would have enjoyed this mashup, an elegy/sonnet/litany in AngloSaxon alliterative meter:
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David also would have had a good joke about this poem (plus a funny short one about David by Robert Crawford) appearing in the final issue of Measure, but I just can't quite pull that joke out of the ether.