Forgetlings

by Daniel Stephensen

Revelation, read to you by me.

S. T. McCarthy’s denim jean cow, read to you by me.

Traces (for a mechanical heart), read to you by me.

For all my life I will keep your bow, read to you by me.

Self-portrait, read to you by me.

A man for himself, read to you by me.

Someone has carried you into his day, read to you by me.

‘I dare you to read this out loud,’ said the poem’s tag.
‘Fair enough,’ said I.

scottie hughes’s lost it (5-6), read to you by me. 

Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s In Memoriam Parts XLIX (From art, from nature, from the schools) & L (Be near me when my light is low), read to you by me.