Imaginary Logic by Rodney Jones

Author:Rodney Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins

The Previous Tenants

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The couple who built our house had great plans

for this lot where they would live out their days:

he in dedicated husbandry, priming a garden

with sludge from the sewage plant, hauling stones

from the condemned homesteads by the new lake

to buttress the terraces; and she reading Aquinas

or pouring Pinot Noir for predinner conversations

after her work as a counselor at the women’s center.

She had returned to school late, a fourth degree,

and a meaningful career after years of jobs

for little pay or credit, the fate of a faculty wife.

She had a gift for empathy, a true calling,

said a fellow counselor at her memorial.

And then the younger son stood and agreed that, yes,

she was a fine counselor, but a terrible mother.

“She was not there for us when we failed.

She only loved our successes.” Cicadas,

then October’s first cold night, the instant

stuck there like an arrow singing in a wall.

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