by Lowell Jaeger
we lay with our legs entwined
breath to breath
mattress on the floor
candle-nub sputtering
on the nightstand
windows crying cold rain
our ghosts of persistent forebodings
we couldn't fend off
for long in the troubled face
of imminent consequence
headed our way...
but these hours we held onto each other
side by side
as the candled flickered
as traffic on the iced streets below
passed and repeated
clung to this one afternoon as the windows welled up with rain
and secretly
i pocketed
forever the lock of her face
nuzzled to my ear
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Lowell Jaeger teaches creative writing at Flathead Valley Community College in Kalispell, Montana. He is author of six collections of poems: War On War (Utah State University Press, 1988), Hope Against Hope (Utah State University Press 1990), Suddenly Out of a Long Sleep (Arctos Press, 2009), WE(Main Street Rag Publishing, 2010), How Quickly What's Passing Goes Past (Grayson Books, 2013) and Driving the Back Road Home (Shabda Press, 2015). He is founding editor of Many Voices Press and editor of New Poets of the American West, an anthology of poets from western states. He is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, winner of the Grolier Poetry Peace Prize, and recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Montana Arts Council.
Lowell Jaeger was awarded the Montana Governor’s Humanities Award for his work in promoting civil civic discourse.
"rainy afternoon" was published in Lowell Jaeger's 2015 collection Driving the Back Road Home.
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