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Bio of Steve can be found here: https://www.flinders.edu.au/people/steve.evans

Sending You a River

In the second part of this poem,
I will be played by a different actor
with the wrong accent

so, I’m cancelling the subscription
to my own newsletter
after first writing a letter of complaint,

and if I hear another love song
rhyming start and heart,
I think I’ll rip the singer’s chest apart.

But for now, I’m sending you a river,
one mouthful at a time —
not quite enough to drown in.

And Then

And then he kissed her,
in French
without subtitles.

Her Love Poems for Others She offers them to me as if to tease, testing the bounds of my jealousies. The answer’s clear, and merciless. I admire their highwire plays and twists, their luxurious, earthing lust for place, but wrench to imagine her this way. I’m not proud of…