What He Took
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Synopsis:
Poems that revisit the death of my father in a car accident when I was two. I move from the accident itself to my efforts to understand the loss and how it has shaped my adult life.
Book Excerpt:
"What He Took"
I kept the shush of sprinklers--
June was hot--and dogs sprawled
in neighbors' yards, but my father
took the possibility of hammocks,
the time of day he settled into,
or maybe it was night, the heavy
blanketing of stars. He shed
all gaudy particularities of adjectives,
the heft and shape of nouns, anything
funny he ever said. And the words
he yelled when he slammed the coor
against--who?--he took that too.
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Sheila Motton Book Prize from The New England Poetry Club (2002)
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Original Publish Date:
March 26, 2009
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