The year many found the needle but lost the thread.
When was lost, stayed lost. AIDS. Rhodesia.
Start of the Weather Channel. Man
Of the Year – the computer. The year after the year
Ronald Reagan swept
Forty-nine states and John Lennon died.
Quik-Stops by then everywhere selling Imagine
Etched on grey stones at the counter.
Daniel Lawless’s book of poetry The Gun My Sister Killed herself With and Other Poems, will be released in be Salmon Press in 2018; recent poems appear or are forthcoming in The American Journal of Poetry, Asheville Review, Cortland Review, B O D Y, The Common, FIELD, frACTalia (Romanian) Fulcrum, The Louisville Review, Manhattan Review, Marsh Hawk Review, Numero Cinq, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. He is the founder and editor of Plume: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry.
