Ron Jevaltas

CONTACT:
Email: jevaltas.ronald@gmail.com
Address: 9398 Co Hwy CC, Pittsville, WI                                    

BIO:
Ron was born and raised in Milwaukee. He graduated from UW-LaCrosse in 1975. After a brief stint as a union carpenter he taught at Columbus Catholic, in Marshfield, for 41 years. He and his wife Roberta still reside in the stone house they built 45 years ago on their rural Pittsville homestead. Ron considers himself a phenological poet, and since retirement (2022) he has been searching for homes for his more than 1,500 poems written over the past of 60 years. He has had published, during that time, 40; most notably 21 by “Moss Piglet,” and six by “The Font: An International Literary Journal for Language Teachers.” His first  book of poems, Lampyridae, was published in September, 2025. His second book, The Phenologist: Part One will also be published by RoseDog Books near the end of 2026.                      

PUBLICATIONS:
The Phenologist: Part One, forthcoming.
Lampuridae, September 2025.

Poetry

Wed to the hunger
in the eye of flame, my cup
warms on a wood stove.

Three

One more hitch
in the angle of incidence and
nearly 3 minutes
added to this day;
how will I spend them?

Time flying turtle-wise so
inexorably
forward, and backward … 3,

the number of afterschool
pennies for glycerine raisins, 
wax lips, a foot scroll of candy buttons:

choices -
monumental quandaries
even back then.

Thaw

A halcyon day.
It’s been an eon since the last 40s.
The suet feeder’s lost its swing,
they ply elsewhere, and the eaves
so long tight fisted are giving over
their tears one drop at a time.
The yard’s hard packed snow has
reverted in places to lace and my
gloveless hands celebrate the roughness
of wood stacking. There is promise
in shushing white pine and how trucks
sound as they pass the house; even
rolling the garbage can to the shoulder
is without chore. The profundity I often
seek in winter - lost in a lover’s first kiss.