{"id":518,"date":"2010-06-05T00:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T00:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=518"},"modified":"2024-06-03T14:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T14:34:24","slug":"letter-i-by-b-l-goss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/letter-i-by-b-l-goss\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter I by B. L. Goss"},"content":{"rendered":"
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B. L. Goss<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Letter I<\/h2>\n

by B. L. Goss<\/p>\n

Last I checked there were no saints in this
\nshabby hole of a beachtown hideout
\njust us, only us
\ntrying our damndest to get
\nsomewhere like heaven
\nand slipping into the
\ntemporary bliss of
\nbiology
\nin stead.<\/p>\n

Breathe deep, those stars are calling.
\nI believe they’re coming closer
\nand maybe we don’t have to climb so far
\nafter all maybe
\nlove is in the inhale, not the exhale
\nmaybe
\nholding that breath is the answer
\nand
\nthe sky will come to you.<\/p>\n

What lovely thoughts
\nwe have together, silently
\nfrom far away.
\nyesterday, for example,
\nI could hear you thinking
\nfrom across the world.
\nyour thought was a sigh
\nand I sighed back,
\ndo you remember?<\/p>\n

I’m still trying to get there.<\/p>\n

B. L. Goss’s work has been published in The Laurentian Literary Review and is forthcoming in both Grasslimb Journal and The Bellingham Review. She is also a regular contributor to eHow.com through her job at Demand Studios. Goss earned her Bachelor’s degree in English and Anthropology from St. Lawrence University, and will be attending the M.F.A. program in Creative Writing at Colorado State in August, 2010. More of her writing can be found on her website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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