draw the curtains start the movie
in the welts of your lingering
touch
dance with me.
no light no cigar no drinking.
just shadows quaking in memorandum.
of a lingering nuance heard. Yesterday,
you were sitting
in the rain
upon a cobblestone.
dress drenched
in supernal grief
looking at me
make faces
in the window
of Garth's
ice
cream
place.
no laughing could disrupt the depth
of our understanding.
one wink of my eye
catching you
like the electoral college
denying lies
to the populous.
it was a farce.
a fake nunnery of devoted happenstance, yet
it did rain.
we did connect.
and was was the only verb
on my mind.
today.
About the Poet:
Dr. Ernest Williamson III has published creative work in over 600 journals. Williamson has published poetry in over 200 journals, including The Oklahoma Review, Poetry Life and Times, The Roanoke Review, Pamplemousse, formerly known as The Gihon River Review, The Copperfield Review, Pinyon Review, I-70 Review, andWilderness House Literary Review. His artwork has appeared in hundreds of journals including New England Review, Kestrel, andColumbia Review. Ernest has an M.A. from the University of Memphis and a Ph.D. from Seton Hall University. Williamson has taught composition and literature courses at numerous institutions including: Fairleigh Dickinson University, Nyack College, Essex County College, and Allen University. He lives in Tennessee.
Ephemeral Elegies 
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