CONVERSATION BETWEEN SAINTS..............................................................................................EVAN ANDERS

Conversation between Saints

Poem by Evan Anders

gladiolus gather in an attempt to deflower spring.

doves console a dying falcon.

a fig utters a final prayer as ants read last rites.

please do not pluck my feathers in public.

a dozen oysters reject their pearls a dozen minnows are swallowed by los angeles the cardinals swear i am saved.

ordinary cities rest laughing upon history. there are no more great kings it’s better this way.

the crabapple tree waits to die as a conversation between saints dissolves into hymns.

Evan Anders brews coffee for mass consumption in Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in Five 2 One Magazine, California Quarterly, Foliate Oak Literary Magazine, North Dakota Quarterly, with work forthcoming in Third Point Press, and Drunk Monkeys. He changes diapers and thinks Bob Dylan was best in the eighties.