01-23-2016, 12:51 AM
Original
Most things are known throughout a life:
like table salt, how it tasted
the night father screamed at you
to leave his room so he could die,
a glass of water, walking barefoot in grass,
or the absence of light in family photos.
How early morning autumn pulls the air
out of you, like reading a poem
all in one breath.
You know even after a death,
Canadian geese will return.
You also know, he won't.
Revision #1
Most things are known through life:
the clear taste of a glass of water,
being barefoot in morning grass,
or the absence of light in family photos
table salt, how it looked in the shaker
of the visitor’s lounge the night
father screamed at you to leave
his room so he could die,
or how early morning autumn pulls
air out of a person, one breath at a time
knowing with undying certainty
that each spring Canada geese will return
to the field beyond your back yard,
even as he won’t.
Most things are known throughout a life:
like table salt, how it tasted
the night father screamed at you
to leave his room so he could die,
a glass of water, walking barefoot in grass,
or the absence of light in family photos.
How early morning autumn pulls the air
out of you, like reading a poem
all in one breath.
You know even after a death,
Canadian geese will return.
You also know, he won't.
Revision #1
Most things are known through life:
the clear taste of a glass of water,
being barefoot in morning grass,
or the absence of light in family photos
table salt, how it looked in the shaker
of the visitor’s lounge the night
father screamed at you to leave
his room so he could die,
or how early morning autumn pulls
air out of a person, one breath at a time
knowing with undying certainty
that each spring Canada geese will return
to the field beyond your back yard,
even as he won’t.