Johnny Keats and the Footloose Cavaliers

Photo by Dominik Bednarz on Unsplash

Melancholy’s lack of zest
is written all over the palimpsest
of a young medical doctor-poet
who died at twenty-five and will, to some,
hardly seem to have been alive at all

But look at his writing
Johnny Keats and the footloose Cavaliers
lived for poetry, music, kisses, tears
eschewing…