POEM

for those who know pain

What did you,
what did you

do today? A
few, some two
or three,

radiances.  

COLD HOUSE by Jon Cone (Toronto: Espresso-chapbooks, 2017)

Hello Friends,


My collection COLD HOUSE is now available for  purchase from Espresso-chapbooks of Toronto, Ontario. Please consider buying a copy or any of their other wonderful titles, and so help the small independent presses.


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Sincerely,

Jon Cone

from THE LYRILIAD

I was a certain
moment, and
you were more
than a moment.
You were the
moment's all.

NEWLY MADE, GIVE OR TAKE

Letter to Edith


A light went off just now. Not the light 
    of an idea        above my head, but a 
literal                light - a bulb
The wiring             in this 
wayward farmhouse is shabby


Almost made it, someone once told me. 
The words     hung secluded        in blue air 
in such awful           trembling manner    as to
suggest         complicity          with pale
leaves           turned over   in
winds         below     humid thunder

They are small           unanchored
praises         sung by crows    and
tyrants       who     rule by tantrum and
proclaim          wood from the pine
works best