James Crews

James Crews was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.  He is  the author of The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy; How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope; and Every Waking Moment: Poems. And many more. James  lives with his farmer husband in Vermont, on Wabanaki and Mohican land.

Evening Light

There is this place on the table

next to the couch where light

always rests at sunset, reaching

through the leaves of the cherry tree

to touch the keychain and calendar,

the wallet and change, one last time

before night falls. That would make

a great photo, I think, ready to reach

for my phone, move the vase of cut

sunflowers closer, so they too might

blaze up and burn. Instead, I stay

right where I am, deciding to leave

the moment intact, tinged orange

with smoke from wildfires up north,

the whole house now held in the

amber of that dying light.

— James Crews