"the dark tree, the cold sea" by Emily Fragos

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend July 24, 2017   the dark tree, the cold sea   Emily Fragos

although I know you can never be found although I know that from the highest height you cannot be seen you are not hiding from me or are you is it how you look now or maybe how I look now all these years gone by places seen people met not knowing at any time who I was or how others saw me or did not see me and how are you wherever you are if I write you a letter I'll get no answer if I cry out to you to come in my final hour you will not come but I will still look for you            Copyright © 2017 Emily Fragos. Used with permission of the author. About This Poem   "People are curious about the you in 'the dark tree, the cold sea.' It need not be a secret. My beloved sister died young of cancer. It is she to whom I am speaking." —Emily Fragos   Emily Fragos is the author of Saint Torch, forthcoming from Sheep Meadow Press in November. She lives in New York City and teaches at New York University and Columbia University.   Photo credit: Dmitri Kasterine Poetry by Fragos   Saint Torch (Sheep Meadow Press, 2017) "Domestic Mysticism" by Lucie Brock-Broido "What the Living Do" by Marie Howe "René Descartes and the Clockwork Girl" by Kathryn Nuernberger Help Support Poem-a-Day   If you value Poem-a-Day, please consider a monthly donation or one-time gift to help make it possible. Poem-a-Day is the only digital series publishing new, previously unpublished work by today's poets each weekday morning. The free series, which also features a curated selection of classic poems on weekends, reaches 450,000+ readers daily. Thank you! 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.   You are receiving this e-mail because you elected to subscribe to our mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe, please click here.   © Academy of American Poets 75 Maiden Lane, Suite 901, New York, NY 10038