Raptors by Toon Tellegen

Author:Toon Tellegen [Toon Tellegen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847778550
Publisher: Carcanet
Published: 2011-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

my mother bent down and looked into the earth

to see if she might find him there

‘yes yes,’ said my brothers, ‘that’s where he must be,’

they spoke hurriedly,

invented his simplicity and amiability,

obscured his absurdity,

commended his delicate unforgettability,

stamped the soil down and prayed:

‘may he be the last one to rise up

in the hour of revelation’

my father cried:

‘if I were to oversleep on that day, of all days…’

combed his hair by way of preparation.

My father

was a human being,

my mother and my brothers were something else

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