Come Around Again Tomorrow

Evalyn Lee

up Pete back walk cop car unbrake in fact never stop Frisco Golden Gate blue sky orange paint forty-six years ago dive swan break body funeral they call you Pierre not Pete I don’t know no Pierre Pete is dead mom says me school skirt twelve cry hard like an elevator snaps its cable bang learn world stops at the bottom of everything I do not know a lot why trees do roots or suns do strange things go on out of the sun you please back fly walk into my life say why my son is like you like me he is

 

Evalyn Lee is a former CBS News producer currently living in London with her husband and two children. Over the years, she has produced television segments for 60 Minutes in New York and the BBC in London. It has been Evalyn's honor to write for Dan Rather, Mike Wallace, and Lesley Stahl while covering a wide range of stories, including both Gulf Wars and numerous investigative pieces. She has studied English literature both in the U.S. and in England and had the opportunity to interview writers, including Joseph Brodsky, Seamus Heaney, Dick Francis, and Margaret Atwood, about their work.

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