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12/28/2017 3 Comments

For Brian, Somewhere in Upstate South Carolina by R.S. Williams

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For Brian, Somewhere in Upstate South Carolina
 
The hands of the clock meant little to you. 
Rather, they pointed out concepts, made 
suggestions, whispered epiphanies. Your muse:
a last-minute hey-if-you-get-around-to-it 
calling from just beyond a wall of fog. 
But you always showed, and always with 
an offering: books, music, a kind word. 
 
Back left corner: an empty seat.
At graduation, your mother’s bowed
weeping face, your father’s grim silent
nod in my direction across a velvet 
regalia sea. I fumble across the dusty
parquet, and nearly trip on my own
useless funnel of a sleeve.
Double-major diploma, with honors
that you are not here to receive. 
 
Somewhere in upstate South 
Carolina, beneath the cheap tan chenille 
of winter-fallow fescue, you lie 
in a burlwood box. 
 
My heart still drops. 
It may never hit bottom. 

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Bio: R.S. Williams taught college writing for 19 years before starting a new career as a freelance writer-artist-editor. She documents the small things most of us miss: moments when light falls across a wall, a sign, the sky, a face. Her current projects include the photo series For Wes and her debut novel, Songs My Father Barely Knew.

3 Comments
Darlene Taylor
12/28/2017 06:15:59 pm

Beautifully tragic.

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Carter Monroe
12/29/2017 03:34:12 am

A tightly woven memorial that does justice to a friendship.

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Stewart
12/29/2017 05:41:53 am

Beautiful, in its succinctness and deep humanity.

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