By Ryan Quinn Flanagan
EXALTATION IN D. MINOR (I’LL BE AROUND)
I had died seven years earlier,
and she played Chopin's Nocturnes each night,
danced under that great gushing Monet,
so that I was with her and not without,
the pulling Joy behind that sudden knowing smile
bathed in candlelight.
Ryan Quinn Flanagan is a Canadian-born author residing in Elliot Lake, Ontario, Canada with his wife and many bears that rifle through his garbage. His work can be found both in print and online in such places as: Evergreen Review, The New York Quarterly, Borderless Journal, GloMag, Red Fez, and Lothlorien Poetry Journal.
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