The capacity of sweet tea
for a tart lemon vodka
is the capacity I hold for love
A bright star
that never moves
while the earth rotates beneath her
Steadfast as thou art
Am I.
Steadfast was the love
that took me in
and gave me peace
hope, tires, a mattress, and gas in the tank
and led me back across Wyoming
into my mother’s cowboy town
until I stood in her basement
and she held me
like I never did a single wrong thing.
Steadfast is the love
that leads me East
while looking up
and ever forward.
Dex is a former Marine Corps Military Police Officer and poet.
What’s happening at VetRep…
Listen to our latest episode with Lois Hicks-Wozniak on the Savage Wonder Podcast, where we interview incredibly talented musicians, artists, writers, and theater professionals, who also happen to be veterans.
Join us every Saturday through June for Gnit, by Will Eno, a cautionary tale about, among other things, how the opposite of love is laziness. Gnit is a faithful, unfaithful, and willfully American reading of Henrik Ibsen’s Peer Gynt, a 19th century Norwegian play famous for all the wrong reasons. Settle in with a delicious mocktail and dessert, and be sure to get your tickets early or they might just sell out.