Perhaps It's as You SayAuthor(s): Peter EverwineSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 1, No. 2 (Spring, 1970), p. 26Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157569 .

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PERHAPS IT'S AS YOU SAY

Perhaps it's as you say That nothing stays lost forever

How many times have I said No No

There is a darkness in the cell

And opened my hands to cup emptiness

Tasting its bitten face

I do not know if our loves survive us

Waiting through the long nights for our step

Or if they will know us then

Entering our flesh with the old sigh

I do not know

But I think of fields that stretch away flat

Beneath the stars their dry grasses

Gathering a light of honey

The few houses wink and go out

Across the fields an asphalt road darkens

And disappears among the cottonwoods by the dry creek

It is so quiet so quiet

Meet me there

26 Peter Everwine

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