Stefan Lovasik

THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF REASON

for Butch

It was the green, the maple leaves

Turning their light side toward

The broken spaces between our words –

The red-tailed hawks that break

And pivot into our stories,

Our conversation of grace,

The impossibility of reason,

How we got here from the red

Mist of Ca Lu and Khe Sanh –

The distractions of years

And gravity that numbs us

As to why we sit here

As old men yet boys

Rehearsing a method to live

In this world and wonder

Why the truth still sounds like a lie.

Oberlin, Ohio

June, 2019

Stefan Lovasik served with U.S. Army Special Forces during the American war in Viet Nam. His poetry has appeared in the American Literary Review, Consequence, Folio, Hiram Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, and Pedestal among others. He has published two collections: Persona and Shadow (FlutterPress, 2015) and Absolution (Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2018). Full Profile

Stefan Lovasik served with U.S.Army Special Forces during the American war in Viet Nam. His poetry has appeared in the American Literary Review, Consequence, Folio, New York Quarterly, Pedestal and elsewhere. He has published three collections: Persona & Shadow (FPress, 2015) & Absolution (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2018) and The Latitude of a Mercy (New York Quarterly Books, 2021).

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