Afternoon WalkAuthor(s): Josephine MilesSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 12, No. 2/3, Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection ofContemporary Writing by Women (Spring - Summer, 1981), p. 240Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20155700 .

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Afternoon Walk Josephine Miles

There is this old man, wistful, hungry, peaked,

Going to mail his letters,

Formerly a governor of some renown.

Good morning, I see you are going to mail your letters.

Yes, I am going to mail my letters.

This peaked old man, suddenly He looks out of the profiles, out of the eyes of friends,

Smiling, what strained happening.

Mortality, are you going to mail your letters?

Yes, I am going to mail your letters.

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