Cenotaphis the third panel in a triptych of books that began withApocryphaand continued withThe Late Romances. All contain poems "stained with grief," as Pamela Alexander described Pankey's work in theBoston Book Review-- grief for the passing of the poet's parents, of his teachers and friends, and of his own once-held belief.    Pankey's poetry vibrates with a deep and delicate musicality. The natural world that sustains and buries us here becomes refracted into an intricate web of glinting, harrowing light, into words circumscribing absence. Jeff Hamilton said inDelmarthat Pankey's eschatological poems are written from the "vantage of the lapsed sublime." In these extraordinary poems of spiritual crisis, gravity and grace, sacred and profane love, the mythic and the heirloom, are all confronted at the open threshold of an empty tomb -- the cenotaph -- where doubt, not faith, awaits.