Hiram Larew

Yes in We

O my love for always once 
you must believe our us 
is we
Our this our both 
are in what’s most and more of 

For these days of nights 
of we should be --
the yes in this 

And yes my love 
you must do and know
this we that sees 
my you in all believe --
This is how two become 
the ever way to we

So my heart let’s if to when
and take along how we’re alive
as hope arrives
And trust this how this now 
to sleep between besides beyond 
our every we

Hiram Larew is the Founder of Poetry X Hunger: Bringing a World of Poets to the Anti-Hunger Cause; Organizer of Voices of Woodlawn, a program of poetry, music, and art that explores the tragedy of slavery; and author of six collections of poems, including Patchy Ways (2023) and Mud Ajar (2021). Larew’s poems have been published in Poetry Catalog, Contemporary American Voices, the Iowa Review, Poetry Scotland’s Gallus, The Belfast Review’s blog, and West Trade Review, among others. He has collaborated with whistlers, disabled poets, numerous translators, visual artists, and composers.