Stones by Kevin Young

Author:Kevin Young [Young, Kevin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2021-09-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chisel

Our words hope to mend

what wind

wants instead—

carved by hand, this stone

soft enough to chisel

& scalpel in

a finger aimed

at heaven. rest

we will meet again.

father

& hope carved

curved above a lamb

asleep, kneeling.

Lilies

Almost June

yet the blooms

are already done

here among

my grandfather

& foremothers & my father

planted too early—

we miss

you brother.

He will not see

another May,

whose colors fiery

surround us

& now him—will not

know his grandson

& namesake, ever since

cruel April

stole him. Father,

never will you know

how words blossom

from my son

this Memorial Day, visiting

your stone—

hot, up, more,

more, he sings—

The lilies

we leave

will tip over in wind

near your name

my son doesn’t yet know

though it’s his own.

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