Conversation between Saints

 evananders_poetry

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, and forthcoming in North Dakota Quarterly.