"Evangelize Your Love" by Jillian Weise was offered by Poets.org's Poem-A-Day on November 15, 2013. A link to the poem, including the poet's notes, may be found here:
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/23751
Jillian Weise (b. 1981) teaches at Clemson University. She was the recipient of the 2013 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. A detailed biography may be found here:
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/2488?utm_source=PAD%3A+Evangelize+Your+Love+by+Jillian+Weise+&utm_campaign=poemaday_111513&utm_medium=email
The poem appears to be a free verse compressed summary of the life and love of a married couple with a sixteen-year-old son. The life of the family falls into a dull routine, represented in the poem by various phrases in quotation marks. The spark has definitely gone out of the marriage.
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