“If I organize the photos in my phone /from Least to Most Remembered. /If I nap till after midnight. /If I recite the names of all the /bugs I’ve ever crushed underfoot.”
Not Our Cat, Not Our Zucchini
"Secret language /of the blood - bound, /untranslatable. /To end a fight, /to pick a fight, /to raise a storm of laughter."
“Secret language /of the blood – bound, /untranslatable. /To end a fight, /to pick a fight, /to raise a storm of laughter.”
Blueprint for Building a Wall
RG Evans invokes Robert Frost to make a short, snarky point.
RG Evans invokes Robert Frost to make a short, snarky point.
When
"I startled awake /to think of my child as an old woman, /who has always been exactly /who she is, never who she may be."
“I startled awake /to think of my child as an old woman, /who has always been exactly /who she is, never who she may be.”
Monkey Hill
R.G. Evans' poem is a rough look at how race divides the poor.
R.G. Evans’s poem is a rough look at how race divides the poor.
Confrontation on 42nd Street
Was I confronted by another or was I confronting myself?
Driving the Beast Away
R.G. Evans offers a poignant meditation on manhood, aging, and libido.
Conjugal
R.G. Evans takes a sobering look at a failed marriage and a man’s attempt to do right by his daughter.
The Principal
RG Evans illustrates how adults can be bullied as well; and how they can come out of it triumphant.
The Conversation
What begins as a simple nostalgic conversation turns into a much deeper emotional reconnection in RG Evans’s poem of male friendship.
After They Finish With You
The speaker of RG Evans’s poem bids a dying father farewell in this passionate reflection.
Smoke
R.G. Evans shows us how the seemingly simple questions our children ask us can set off a whole train of complicated associations.