ALWAYS

The poem mourns 
its ending.
Period
Nothing left to say:
a monument
to once. 

Ronald J. Pelias spent most of his career writing books, e.g., If the Truth Be Told (Brill Publications), The Creative Qualitative Researcher (Routledge), and Lessons on Aging and Dying (Routledge), that call upon the literary as a research strategy. Now he writes for the pleasures of putting words to the page.