“An Evel Knievel Elegy,” by Brendan Galvin

Today’s poem rode its rocket-powered bike through fire. Which we admired.

“An Evel Knievel Elegy” is one of the poems in “Forms” chapter of my lit class textbook, The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature (9th ed.), edited by Michael Meyer. It first appeared in Shenandoah 58.2 (2008).