Steven Minchin’s most recent poem to appear here was “. . . Vice Verses Who?” (October 2019).
96th Testimony to Everafter
By Steven Minchin
I have the spark
the wild infant edition
interlocked with the unholy
and incomplete
I wear it out
when hunting down
ignition and when
engulfed in regression
I spark
a new wanton fire to singe
and mare an old forever
industrialized and hot
infantile and never ending
illuminated and backed by
an exasperating everafter
a new wick waiting
I have the spark