Read Patrick Warner's "Cold July," dedicated to Elise's Memory
From the Véhicule press blog...
COLD JULY
for Elise Partridge (1958 - 2015)
1.
I have seen it as a beaver-dammed
lukewarm dribble, but this summer the brook's a river,
deep and cold, running steeped tea
and a skim of froth around lichened rocks,
roaring like an air conditioner.