“Hello Darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk to you again…”
Paul Simon
Dear Jamie,
for how else shall
I address you?
You, who’ve lived
enshadowed in me
A name, sealed away
by state authority
and memory
Only a legal error
informs me of you
How has it been
this life lived through
dream and poetry?
Have I honored you
the way you hoped?
For I, too, had a name
smothered out
and that one, Francis,
comes closest to touching
the essence of you
All we can both do
is carry on
Over at dVerse, for Poetics:For the love of letters (pubtended by Punam), we’re write epistolary poems.
The pub is open! Come join us!
Frank J. Tassone 
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