An Individual History by Michael Collier

Author:Michael Collier
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-06-08T04:30:00+00:00

Brendan’s Hair

And we spent a long time hovering above the sky,

crying on its great canvas surface, tears collecting

in low spots, sagging the fabric through which

the sun usually poured. That’s why we went back inside

and took up the brooms to push off the water and drain

the burden our sadness made, that’s why we walked up

the aisle holding hands, straight to his white coffin—

a gift from the queen of cold and ice—and his white suit,

the touch of snow on the bruised forehead—icing

from the vault of death—and the white blanket

folded under his gleaming hands, and why we didn’t linger

except to register the scalp, albino pink,

and hair in its last furrows but wrongly parted,

which is what my son wanted to know from that instant

of seeing his friend in the elaborate bed, he wanted to know:

“Why did they do that to Brendan’s hair?”

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