Poem-A-Day: Evangelize Your Love by Jillian Weise

November 15, 2013 Evangelize Your Love by Jillian Weise At home, a sixteen-year-old son  and window treatments and walls  to paint and "How was your day?"  On the web there are no days  and no seasons and no oil changes  for the Subaru. "No one important."  At the motel, flat pillows, a lamp  tall as his son in the corner and  a print of a sailboat. "In year three,  the sex fizzled and we broke up.  Then we got married." Have you gotten  yourself into something? "Tonight  I am making your favorite dish."  News comes on, news goes off, taxes.  "At some point, he stopped kissing me  on the neck." She needs to write  her Goals Statement. "He promised."  More or less. "How can I live like this?"  the three of them in unison.     Copyright © 2013 by Jillian Weise. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem "Do you remember when it seemed like lots of politicians were sexting their girlfriends? I was thinking of Atwood's story 'Happy Endings.' At the end of the story, the narrator defines plot as 'a what and a what and a what. Now try How and Why.' I love that." --Jillian Weise  Most Recent Book by Weise The Book of Goodbyes (BOA Editions, 2013)               Poem-A-Day Launched during National Poetry Month in 2006, Poem-A-Day features new and previously unpublished poems by contemporary poets on weekdays and classic poems on weekends. Browse the Poem-A-Day Archive.   Jillian Weise is the author of two books of poems, including  The Book of Goodbyes (BOA Editions, 2013), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. She teaches at Clemson University and lives in South Carolina.    Related Poems What Goes On by Stephen Dunn The Bedroom by Paula Bohince The Cabbage by Ruth Stone __________________________ Rae Armantrout is the judge for the 2014 Walt Whitman first book award. Submit your manuscript online. Deadline: December 1.     Thanks for being a part of the Academy of American Poets community. To learn about other programs, including National Poetry Month, Poem in Your Pocket Day, the annual Poets Forum, and more, visit Poets.org.

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