Sally Bliumis-Dunn: Work
The father sanded the gunwales,the boy coiled the lines.
And I admired them there, each to his task
in the quiet of the long familiar.
Stephen Dobyns: No Map
To neither did I say how much
I loved them, nor express the extent of my fear.
Their bodies are delicate glass boxes
at which the world begins to fling its stones.
Baruch November: Summer, Duluth, M.N.
we reel
in crappie after crappie,
laughing at their name
and the ease at which
they are hooked
Video: My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes
Was my father’s leftover stuff the key to who he really was?
Michael Simms: Swamp Thing
The next morning I rode my bicycle to Wolf Corner where coyotes and dogs were
Hung on a wooden rack to discourage coyotes
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Philip F. Clark: The Fathers
I steadied you in the bathroom as you pissed, drunk and shaking. I was the only one who would make sure you didn’t fall. You kept talking about the friends … Continue reading
