Butch Geography by Stacey Waite

Author:Stacey Waite
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-936797-34-9
Publisher: Tupelo Press

What It Means to Inherit

The part of me who is my father

does not weep.

I dreamt that after dinner

I realized I had swallowed

my father’s heart.

I catch myself looking at women

the way he did. I catch myself

lingering in the trance of hips

and thinking they are for me.

Before sleep, like my father,

I pull sadness into my bedroom

the way the butcher pulls in his awning

at closing time.

The June night my father died

I could see my own breath.

I am in the Ladies Room.

I am wetting my hair.

When I look at my reflection,

it is my father wetting his hair.

We are both in the wrong place.

Whatever longing I have,

I never call it that.

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