December 2016

Ed Werstein
wersted@gmail.com

I am currently the East Region VP of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (wfop.org). I'm in love with another V-V contributor the fantastic Sylvia Cavanaugh. My chapbook, Who Are We Then? was published by Partisan Press. You can find examples of my other work on Your Daily Poem and on Little Eagle's RE/Verse.

​Save This Poem


Save this poem
from the darkness.
Put it where 
someone might find it,
so that it might live
and not be lost 
when we are gone.

Fold it in a book
to be found like 
a pressed flower
among your favorite things
many years from now.

And if it is read
in that distant future,
who could then say
the dead do not speak,
the way Ella sings to me
as I write this?
Or the way my mother, gone too,
whispers with the daffodils.

Perhaps someone in that future 
would imagine 
it was written  just for them;
the way I imagine now
that some were written 
just for me. Imagine,
if you can. 

And so to you who reads this now,
who imagines I write only for you,
I say again:
Save this poem 
from the darkness.
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©2016 Ed Werstein

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