Sunday, January 04, 2009

Epistolary Poem--James Galvin

Dear Nobody's Business--James Galvin

What did you expect
Threadbare me to do
With nothing to deflect
The gale of your remove?

The scanty sacred secret
Tries to thumb a ride
Through drubbed, irresolute,
And famously slippery light.

Like a spooky spark from an anvil
The sun makes a teary streak
Across the almost tranquil,
Which is the almost bleak.

What is threadbare me to do
When wind cleaves your summer dress
To almost all of you?

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Genius rhyme--lovely poem. And the missing line in the last stanza--again beautiful.

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