Dear dusk, why are you so fleeting? lady lavender pink swirls across consciousness and I try to hold on hold onto the image, the vastness of shadows across the roads, deep and darting, like youthful dancers but you disappear too soon, like so many loved visions, replaced by cold star stabs. why must you fade? why must my smile become frowns. frowns are too ubiquitous. don’t let the purple turn navy blue turn to black and stars eat you. Why can’t you stay deep purple reverie, a purple sweat, a deep lavender and gold filled smile, bathe the hills, the roads, wash away obligations and angry men with mustaches why must you surrender so fast? fight, pretty lavender and gold, fight the night fight for me, darling dusk.
About the Poet:
Yash Seyedbagheri is a graduate of Colorado State University’s MFA program in fiction. His work is forthcoming or has been published in journals such as 50 Word Stories, Silent Auctions, City. River. Tree. and Ariel Chart.
Ephemeral Elegies 
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