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R.G. Evans
"And Then What America, And Then What?"
-MILTON KESSLER
What if California wasn't the end of possibility?
Gleaming out past Alcatraz and Coronado-
someplace real to reach, if only you could walk across the water.
Forget Manifest Destiny. What is ever manifest?
What is destined? Today is only lupine yesterday
wrapped up warmly in fresh wool.
Call it The Inevitable Bliss, or if you like,
call it Best Western, the place where they have
to take you in when Home turns you away.
What would you say to such a sunset,
to the glittering waves conjured by the moon?
I'll say I'm the brother of the water when I mean I'm the sister of the air.
What if we have always had this, this more-than-we-had-ever-imagined?
What if all this time we've lived in dread
of the end of something that just goes on and on . . .
and then what, America, and then what?
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As a special treat this week, R.G. Evans reads his poem aloud on the TLR Website. Click here to listen. |
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R.G. Evans's poems, fiction, and nonfiction have appeared in such publications as Paterson Literary Review, Pif Magazine, and Weird Tales. His original music, including the song "The Crows of Paterson," was featured in the 2012 documentary All That Lies Between Us. Evans holds an MFA from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He teaches creative writing at Rowan University and Language Arts at Cumberland Regional High School, both in southern New Jersey.
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