Evie Shockley Long Poems
- 1. On New Year's Eve
we make midnight a maquette of the year:
frostlight glinting off snow to solemnize
the vows we offer to ourselves in near
silence: the competition shimmerwise
... - 2. From The Lost Letters Of Frederick Douglass
Dear Daughter,
Can you be fifty-three this
month? I still look for you to peek around
my door as if you'd discovered a toy
... - 3. Ballplayer
i cop a squat on a squared-off log,
to watch you ball on the community center court.
butt numb, i shift my weight
... - 4. - Shall Become As -
You put this pen
in my hand and you
take the pen from
my hand. the night
...
