Rift of Light by William Logan

Author:William Logan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2017-10-03T04:00:00+00:00

The Box Kite

The lift, the very lift and pull of it!

They’d wasted the summer morning,

father and son in the devil’s

breath of July—gnats wheedling

madly above the drive—pasting Sunday comics

across the struts, like the canvas skin

of a Sopwith Camel. Into the close-gnawn yard

with its humpback boulder,

they dragged it triumphantly, unreeling the twine

until the contraption yanked itself

from bald earth, high above

the matchbox houses by the sweetly reeking bog,

beneath the shadow of woods,

to a height where a boy might peer over the horizon

to Boston—and beyond, the ocean.

The son was my father. I tottered at his legs,

having borrowed his name and my grandfather’s.

They paid out the ramshackle affair

until it became a postage stamp. The line

burned a bloody groove into my palms,

the last time they stood at ease with each other.

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