“November Evening Comes” © Jake Williams

 

Stable And Casual

Leaving those steps of stairs
losing the parts that worked
was every bit as hard as you’d
believe, but they weren’t going
to let me get away with it, either.

Potentiating your dooms with
meanings inundated of the
cream when you’ve only just
premised a version of yourself
on the choices you make tomorrow—
this wasn’t the idea, yet. They
wouldn’t tell us if it were meant
to be or not—those were meant
to matter the most of any of them.
 
 

Robin Styles Oliver is the Chicago prophet of his wiser meaning for kindness and war. Discovering this through poetry is his passion for expressing the modern human condition. His work can be found in diverse and remote areas of the web and is forthcoming in other publications. Check out his chapbook, First I Was Wise, with Bottlecap Press.

Jake Williams is a writer based and photographer in Cumbria (the North remembers!), just south of The Wall. His previous publications include The Poetry Lighthouse, CV2 and To Live Here: A Haiku Anthology (Wee Sparrow Poetry Press).