Mail, and: The Last
Rent from DeepDyve- Mail, and: The Last
We wrote one another a lotin those days, long windingletters in which I asked herif she knew of my gratitude,and her replies were so generousit is only now that I realizemy gratitude was notgratitude but another request.
The Last
Stars beat back your kindnessNight blot out the sunFor days we counted her breathsAnd then there was only one. [End Page 42]
John Freeman
John Freeman is the editor of Granta magazine. His poetry has appeared in the New Yorker, ZYZZVA, and the Buenos Aires Review. He is the author of the books The Tyranny of E-mail (Scribner) and How to Read a Novelist (Farrar, Straus & Giroux). He lives in New York and London.
