February 3, 2015 / barton smock
there’s something about holding the stick and there’s something about throwing it. two things I can walk to while thinking of how my grandmother lost her first husband and only son to water. two things I can cough into my mother’s blindfold as my father soberly misses as many trees as he doesn’t. two silent bodies of dog named after what came. my son after what came back.
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