Kathy Evans
Kathy Evans is a teacher of poetry and literature with California Poets in the Schools.
Articles
Unfinished Sestina for the Secretary of Defense
We were inside the world.
The children were sleeping.
Light fell through the window.
One of us wore red.
Returning
Mouth over the reed,
you empty your feelings
into the hollow heart.
These are the pieces left:
For the Bishop’s Wife
Some of us stood together
on your star-gray lawn,
sang you Christmas carols
in the warm California air.
Nativity
The eyes of the beasts shine into my own.
The archangel’s hair is on fire. I stumble
through the mudprints of cows and ewes
toward the damp side of the cave
Here’s the Church
While the organist pumped
“Let Us All Press on in the Work of the Lord,”
and the chorister napped her arms
like a whooping crane, and some sat there