Brittany Frasure
Envelope

Maybe we’ve come from twelve steps away –
the absence of cold hands and hearts
to push us from that uppermost ledge:
the leap is fatal.
The stay likewise deadly
in its promise of always being.
Maybe you and I are worth all the licks
a white envelope can manage
before the back starts to tarnish –
maybe there can be a train, all that sappy jazz,
and be a day for stopping.
Or maybe we’re not.
Maybe we’re only admirable
as are the silent contents of a cold, hard, unlaminated drawer.
There, forgotten, but fresh in every feature
if remembered again.

Brittany Frasure, of Paintsville, a BSCTC alumnus, is now a student at Pikeville College.