Poet Jeffery Beam
Poems

Lovesick Shirt

They visit him
Grown thin
No flesh
No bones
Nothing resembling a body

Love's wrapped him in an ill suit
No visible trace left

From The Beautiful Tendons, manuscript.

© 2001, Jeffery Beam
Email: jeffbeam@email.unc.edu
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Last updated: Friday, April 27, 2001