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Evan Stephens
Poems
Sep 2023
Letter to H----
H----,
You leave for the broad south
in four days, to rasp a new curl
from old timber. Your destiny
is obliged to subdivide again,
fresh and wild. In the basement
of your goodbye I was filled
with a familiar senescence:
old wreaths, nerve-headed,
are hammered to inner doors
where I hide atomic thoughts
and hot-heart steam valves;
muffled click-clacks ricochet
in a containing pink sarcophagus.
How appropriate that I left
in the melting middle of the rain,
the road seething and spitting,
puddled rugs of mercury skating
across Saturday's lap.
H----, this life is strange and brief
& your escape to far sun country
is high adventure; but I lament
your absence, all the same.
Yours, Evan
Written by
Evan Stephens
44/M/DC
(44/M/DC)
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