Poem Composed Entirely With Last Lines from James Dickey Poems 1 & 2
James Valvis
1.
in the end at the end of a war
when I begin living forever
joy like short grass
from now on out
others, others
sustained in the serpent’s eye
small, but with world-fury
but now they just haunt the place
I shall rise from the dead, I am saying
all ends in gentleness
in Hell, in love
2.
for nothing
for nothing at all in his arms
take his nude child in his arms
for nothing at all in his arms
all things in this life that he could
alone in the night
with intact and incredible love
for nothing
for nothing
bring out your dead, I cry
for nothing at all in his arms
take his nude child in his arms
and let him fly
JAMES VALVIS is the author of How to Say Goodbye (Aortic Books, 2011). He has published many poems in places like Anderbo, Arts & Letters, River Styx, and Verse Daily. His fiction is also widely published in places like Elimae, Los Angeles Review, Potomac Review, and storySouth. He lives in Issaquah, Washington.
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