Sweetheart Come, by Devon Balwit

One of several letters written to her husband from an asylum. Emma Hauck (Germany). 1909.

Devon Balwit

This poem was first published in taplit mag, and in the book We Are Procession, Seismograph, by Devon Balwit (Nixes Mates Books).

Devon Balwit teaches in Portland, OR. She has seven chapbooks and three collections out or forthcoming, among them: We are Procession, Seismograph (Nixes Mate Books), Risk Being/Complicated (A collaboration with Canadian artist Lorette C. Luzajic); Where You Were Going Never Was (Grey Borders); and Motes at Play in the Halls of Light (Kelsay Books). Her individual poems can be found in The Cincinnati Review, The Carolina Quarterly, The Aeolian Harp Folio, The Free State Review, Rattle, and more.