‘Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach’ and Other Poetry by Alec Ream

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Lone Cypress, Pebble Beach

Crack of stone for rest and bed,
Wrack of storm unpressed I tread,
Sun and proud and bright and gold;
Dun and shroud of night, I hold.

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Fraternal

I have some friends I got by word,
We never met and rare conferred,
Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Athens tend
To mind and thought, which comprehend
An ancient truth, from day of yore:
When thought be one? From yonder, more.

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Long’s Drugstore, Lunch Cultus

By “lunch” is meant this pharmacy,
Persistent, from mid – century,
As many eggs for dollars three,
The kind of place we like to be.

Where they mention Sigma Chi,
Where you’ll hear On Jewish Rye,
With Father’s Father’s Father nigh,
And on the wall:  that kind of guy.

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Alec Ream is a writer living in Virginia. His poetic work and creative fiction have been widely published. A member of the Demosthenian Literary Society at UGA, he wrote on Lookout Mountain, and continued to write, lecture and work for Delta Kappa Epsilon HQ. He was first published reading to the pledge class of Michigan DKE, in Ann Arbor in 2008. Recently, his poem Green Fire was read at the Washington Literary Society & Debating Union at UVA.