Father & Son by Window
2006; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 29; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/cal.2006.0059
ISSN1080-6512
Autores ResumoFather & Son by Window Sjohanna Bruce McCray (bio) You sing, soft winds & blue seat. Of course, you get the lyrics wrong. Dinah sings, soft winds & blue sea. Dinah will wait near shore for him. Father on his chair underneath the shower's spray. Tonight, you flip the night as if it were a card You scrub his back move briskly through the arms. You match the constellations each to a different longing. So light you're hefting nothing. A black square, then another. You take the rag to the blunt nose, over the lips, almost yours. By now, the stars are embers, the numbers are forgotten. You follow the knots, the dark scars on a faced turned away from water. His memory flickers on. A light from a porch nearby. Sjohanna Bruce McCray Sjohnna Bruce McCray, who received a master's degree from Columbia University, has published poems in Black Warrior Review, The Greensboro Review, and Shenandoah and has taught English at The Bronx High School of Science. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia. Copyright © 2006 Charles H. Rowell
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