Ralph Bousquet is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and earned a degree from Hampshire College and an MFA from New York University. He lives in Brooklyn.

Elegy for Sammy

by Ralph Bousquet

I prefer to remember something simple
like finding you sitting cross-legged

on my unfertilized crabgrass lawn at one
o’clock in the morning staring at Cassiopeia


between wild tufts of bracken fern & the tender
Pleiades blinking back down on your last bad trip
People on couch
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