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    Friday
    17Apr2009

    Absorbing Dad

    DateFriday, April 17, 2009 at 09:57AM

    An angel stirred up the pool at noon

    one bleak brown day in winter.

    We dragged ourselves up,

    on haunches, on crutches,

    on brittle bones, on pressed pills and radium rays,

    not racing any more these days,

    preferring this half-dead unhealing so old we can finger only scars.

    And no luck again today, nor soon.

     

    Dad's spirit gathers from the lucid lime-bright water,

    rises like steam, coalesces towards me,

    drags over the waters,

    commands ordered columns from the shapeless vapour,

    arms flung extravagantly wide,

    forgives my sin,

    softly seeping through my broken skin.

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