Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, most recently Escape Envy (Brick Road, 2021). His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Mid-American Review, Harvard Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble.
Thinking of You
Scrambling eggs, I think of you.
Think of you over morning coffee.
Prepare to write a poem
about fawns & rabbits
in the yard, & there you are,
the one with whom I’d share
all this. I turn my head
to tell you, find empty space,
mystery where magic should be.
Your scent of lavender &
lemons lingers, although
you haven’t been here in weeks.
I think of you now
at the end of this verse:
in your hand a glass of brandy;
in your eyes, the night.