Please Come Flying

/ Issue 13.3 /

Lucie I’m flying south to you
…….. Through winter on a train
You beat the summer one last time
My body takes me where I go

Bearing my thousand single love for
…….. You….. now that you can’t hear me
Quietly….. to the cemetery
The long train knocks….. the long train shivers

Beneath the weight….. I shiver most
…….. Beside me….. fast rain fills the
Window….. displacing as it spills a-
cross the glass….. light….. I staring west

Mistake light leaving for light dying
…….. Lucie as the light flies
Sparkling from the glass….. back to the sky
In raindrops flying….. that fall back flying

Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae’s most recent books are Sometimes I Never Suffered, a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Rilke Prize, and Cain Named the Animal, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.
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Author: Shane McCrae

Shane McCrae’s most recent books are Sometimes I Never Suffered, a finalist for the Maya Angelou Book Award, the T. S. Eliot Prize, and the Rilke Prize, and Cain Named the Animal, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has received a Lannan Literary Award, a Whiting Writer’s Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, a Pushcart Prize, and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.