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Strange Privacies: Poems

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An excerpt from Section 3: My Father Dressing Me as Zorro, taken from the poem “Listening to Coltrane on the 4th of July”:

Now I’ve lowered a mask over my face
The eye-slits don’t fit, and I can’t see.
I scent the smoke of his cigarette. I tell him
they turned off the electricity, the gas and phone,
that neighbors fed us after he left. I’m feeling
in the gift box for a toy rapier, which I wave
between us. He tells me to stop horsing around:
this close, one of us is likely to get hurt.

Language: English

Pages: 28

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Southeast Missouri State Univ Press

Release: November 01, 2006

ISBN: 0976041367

ISBN 13: 9780976041368

Strange Privacies: Poems

3.5/5 ( ratings)

An excerpt from Section 3: My Father Dressing Me as Zorro, taken from the poem “Listening to Coltrane on the 4th of July”:

Now I’ve lowered a mask over my face
The eye-slits don’t fit, and I can’t see.
I scent the smoke of his cigarette. I tell him
they turned off the electricity, the gas and phone,
that neighbors fed us after he left. I’m feeling
in the gift box for a toy rapier, which I wave
between us. He tells me to stop horsing around:
this close, one of us is likely to get hurt.

Language: English

Pages: 28

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Southeast Missouri State Univ Press

Release: November 01, 2006

ISBN: 0976041367

ISBN 13: 9780976041368

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