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CutBank Volume 1 Issue 77 CutBank 77 Article 45 Fall 2012 Letter to Your Old Address in Boston, Early October Evan Beaty Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Beaty, Evan (2012) "Letter to Your Old Address in Boston, Early October," CutBank: Vol. 1: Iss. 77, Article 45. Available at: http://scholarworks.umt.edu/cutbank/vol1/iss77/45 This Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks at University of Montana. It has been accepted for inclusion in CutBank by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks at University of Montana. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Le t t e r t o y o u r o l d a d d r e s s IN B O S T O N , EARLY O C T O B E R Already it may have frosted there. O r soon will— every winter early everywhere, this year. I w o n t reference the birches, the slick roof o f the fishermens church. In Virginia too the sky is low, wet wool. Th e re must still be a window behind which you lie reading, t h ou gh looking through it would be like looking through a fly’s wing. W h e n 1 close my eyes to imagine those front steps, I only see a man standing before a door, folding his coat over his arm. He must be waiting for an answer. Perhaps his daug hter lives in the room where we slept, naked and cool, un de r the small print o f Long Crass w ith Butterflies while the rain ticked outside. H e walks back through the courtyard to the street, surprised at the defiant flowers a r o u n d the iron railings. Two tiny yellow leaves cling to his collar. H e has not seen his d a ug ht er in years, does n ot kn ow the w o m a n she is now. As he t urns from n u m b e r 72, we share a t h ou gh t: if I die before you, you w ill live forever. 186 Beaty