Poetry Reading: DISSOLUTION OF MY FATHER, by Jesse Darnay
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1m 25s
Performed by Val Cole
POEM:
Inpatient Hospice
You inhabit me; you narrow to flanks.
Your spineless nerves sear my ventricles.
The creative will will snap your cheekbone—
hush, soil, remains.
Look at the blank between us
squeezing my shoulders.
I breathed through your infamy
at graduation,
mingled, carried my orphaned part,
discarded in a scattering
of peers.
Your socked feet shake now,
betray what you outran:
weakness.
Face compressed to grooves, you
strain to unriddle me.
Your neck, the bruises,
an ardor of decomposition.
You mouth Yoplait,
stilled by the TV’s shifting colors
where an Olympian spirals.
A nurse checks the infusion.
I can’t piece
the fragments
we are
to make you solid
and keep me safe.
You cut my lyric free
of source.
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