Anne Graue
Dear Frank
Dear Frank
I couldn’t have known you
your oranges gone moldy
wrapped in fuzzy green
and I miles away
from Fire Island
when I was 4
and you 10 times that.
If only
I’d been older
you’d been younger
we’d’ve had a beer
in the 80s in Brothers Tavern
in Aggieville REM playing
“So. Central Rain” murmuring
dark nonthreatening (I’m sorry)
the oaken tables reckoning
under the occasional
amber damp.
Anne Graue
Anne Graue is the author of Full and Plum-Colored Velvet, (Woodley Press, 2020) and Fig Tree in Winter (Dancing Girl Press, 2017) and has poetry in SWWIM Every Day, Verse Daily, Gargoyle, EcoTheo Review, Flint Hills Review, Feral: A Journal of Poetry and Art, and in print anthologies, including The Book of Donuts (Terrapin Books, 2017) and Coffee Poems (World Enough Writers, 2019). Her book reviews appear in FF2 Media, Adroit, Green Mountains Review, Glass Poetry Journal, and The Kenyon Review. She is a poetry editor for The Westchester Review and on the editorial board at Nimrod International Journal.