I am very sorry
to be able to think
only of the cold.
Bleeding quietly on your fence,
your Keds, your shetland silent,
your posture so hastily improvised
where you hang, with so little thought
for your comfort -
for what would come
after you exhausted them.
I think of you.
It is cold, so far from you.
So far from you
it is only cold.
Is that a reference to Matthew Shepard, gone 10 years this day?
ReplyDeleteThis the anniversary, surely in the media the least marked of all, of Matthew Shepherd's death. The horror of it still strong even after all these years. With Downcast Gays (I think it's called) a pamphlet published in Britain in the 1980s is an essential read for those of us who look with wonderment at this history and also at how little is done to improve the situation.
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