“Walking Savannah at Night” © Ferris E Jones

 

A Fan Letter

     Dear Laura Gilpin:

I thought you’d like to know
that I checked out a book of your poems,
the one that won the Whitman Prize,
from my public library.
You wrote wonderful poems. The one
about the calf with two heads was my favorite.
I read that one over and over again.

My library, which was in a very small town,
still did things the old fashioned way
of stamping the due date on a slip of paper
glued to the inside cover of their books.
I was only the fifth person to read your book
since it was published in 1977.

Little wonder that you searched for and found
another way to live a life of healing,
another way to look into the universe and find
twice the usual number of stars.

 

Having grown up in rural Michigan, David Jibson now lives in Ann Arbor where he is the editor of Third Wednesday, an independent quarterly journal of literary and visual arts, a member of the Poetry Society of Michigan and a coordinator of The Crazy Wisdom Poetry Circle. He is retired from a long career in Social Work, most recently with a Hospice agency.

Ferris E Jones is an award-winning, internationally published poet, artist, and screenwriter living in Manchester Connecticut. His work has appeared in both print and online magazines including as the featured poet for Creative Talents Unleashed. Other magazines include: Dreich, Oddball Magazine, Glo Mag, Piker Press, Se La Vie Writers Journal, Write on Magazine, Outlaw Poetry, Degenerate Literature 17, Tuck Magazine, The Literary Hatchet, Warriors with Wings, In Between Hangovers, and many other literary publications. He is the recipient of two grants from the Nevada Arts Council and the Editor/Publisher of Nevada Poets 2009. Ferris has twice received honorable mention awards from the Writer’s Digest annual screenwriting contest. He is also the Author / Editor of nine poetry collections. You can learn more about Ferris E. Jones by visiting www.inquisitionpoetry.com where each month he features the work of other poets. The goal of this site is to spread the word of poetry throughout the world.