Photo by Katherine Knupp
THE LETTER
By John Repp
In the letter,
she says she doesn’t
want to end
the letter so I’ll
never stop reading
this scrap light
as ash in the pit
where I’ve sworn
for thirty years to burn it
Today’s poem originally appeared in diode and appears here today with permission from the poet.
John Repp is a widely published poet, fiction writer, essayist, and book critic. Since 1978, he has taught writing and literature at various colleges, universities, schools, and social service agencies. A native of southern New Jersey, he has lived for many years in northwestern Pennsylvania with his wife, the visual artist Katherine Knupp, and their son, Dylan.
Editor’s Note: Today’s poem contains the joy of the unsaid. It enables the reader to invent a world—a relationship—from a few fragments of speech. There is so much joy in the power of the small poem, and in language that teases, that alludes to something larger than it shares and enables us to choose our own adventure.
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Lovely poem, John.
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I like the profundity of his simplicity~~~also, on Diode, his piece of Gratitude. Beautiful. Thanks, John~~~and, of course, Sivan~~~for offering the multitude of these!
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