Saturday, July 31, 2021

Elegy in Another Smoky Sunset



I think of it, too.

I have kept everything whispered,

All the tenderness we could work in

Between the highway and the mountain,

The crook of my arm wet with tears,


No path forward,

No path back,

So brief, your eyes.

There was never a way,

And we knew.


It ruins me, too,

Still alive,

The forests aflame.