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SUMMER VISIT
by Michael Ralph

My father never calls me on the phone
says he doesn't like the phone

It's up to me
to get to my parents' home
on summer weekends
where I find my father languid
in the backyard
smoking a cigarette
or pondering a flower
a crossword puzzle covering
his half-naked body
of pale meat and dark fur
his rich black hair
sprouting gray strands

Hi Dad/I say
and his voice/Hi Michael
is warm
He is happy to see me
standing there on the grass

He doesn't move/I want him to get up and hug me
instead I sway before him silent like a newly planted tree
and then I move into the house
looking for my mom


from THE ORIGIN OF THE GOLDFISH and other poems

 




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