Lois Bassen
Eros in December
Weather changed from storm to sun, but it stayed December anyway. There it is, he is the one. Why should a browneyed boy so stun me as he did today when weather changed from storm to sun, I cannot say, but it was done when it was done one winter day, and there it is, he is the one. It felt a horrible kind of fun; I’m far too old to feel his sway, but weather changed from storm to sun. His eyes unchaste, I must run. There it is, and god knows why. There it is, he is the one. The moment’s masked by poet’s pun. He made me warm as mornings May. Weather changed from storm to sun, but it stayed December anyway.
Lois Bassen won a Mary Roberts Rinehart Fellowship for an alternative history novel and has been published in many lit magazines, including Kenyon Review and American Scholar. A Vassar grad, married for 41 years with two adult daughters, she moved from NYC to Rhode Island and is also a published playwright who won the 2009 Atlantic Pacific Press Drama Prize for her play "The End of Shakespeare & Co.”
