A Poem From Roger Pfingston
April 23, 2010Roger Pfingston is a retired teacher of English and photography who lives in Bloomington with his wife Nancy, also a retired teacher. “Thirty Years” was written for his wife nearly…
Roger Pfingston is a retired teacher of English and photography who lives in Bloomington with his wife Nancy, also a retired teacher. “Thirty Years” was written for his wife nearly twenty years ago.
Thirty Years
How I love you
this evening,
the two of us
drinking sun tea
under the moon,
fireflies a floating
marquee flashing
one show only
as the night-
blooming cereus
opens for our
private pleasure.
The Indiana Humanities Council is posting poems on Think.Read.Talk. by Hoosier poets in celebration of National Poetry Month. Other Indiana celebrations include poetry readings at the Artsgarden (above the intersection of Illinois and Washington Streets, Indianapolis), performed each Monday at 12:15 p.m. For a schedule of events, click here.
