Cremation / A Memory by Jimmy Pappas

Cremation

A black
circle

on the
driveway

from last
night

where I
burned

her old
letters.

A Memory

A silent
prayer

for an
old

remembered love
affair

I always
hoped

to hug
again. 

Published in over 100 journals, Jimmy Pappas is the Zoom moderator for the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. His poem "Bobby's Story" won the 2018 Rattle Readers Choice Award. He was the winner of the 2020 Rattle chapbook contest for Falling off the Empire State Building.