Drop Zone
Poems
978-1-881515-05-0 Paperback
6 x 9 x 0 in
70 pp.
Pub Date: 11/01/1997
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RACING
After my father's car
hit the wall and flipped over,
someone used to such things
must have run to the track
expecting the best,
and others must have sobbed
when they placed their hands
on his still chest.
Aunt Carry showed us the clipping
years after it happened;
we'd stopped in Spartanburg to visit,
and she gave me his birth certificate to keep.
On the way home I said,
If you live dangerously,
you can die dangerously.
Mother didn't hear.
She was saying I never wished your father any harm.
Bur I wondered after what I heard
of nights she sat inside a car
with the motor running,
and him behind another woman's door,
the liquor she rushed to the drain
until finally love was as thin as the sheets
she threw her suitcase on.
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