The Second O of Sorrow by Sean Thomas Dougherty

Author:Sean Thomas Dougherty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
Published: 2018-03-07T00:00:00+00:00

Our sons we never stop seeing them as when we carried them to sleep.

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At evening slumped in his chair after work. After the long hours on the road, my father came home to our red brick tenement flat and drank and talked. My father could really drink, but he was even better at talking. He had a history degree. He’d pour the Bacardi and tell me about Alexander Nevsky, or the Wobblies, or Nat Turner or the Molly Maguires. He knew all the great battles and what and who made the revolutions. He once wanted to be a teacher but took whatever job he found selling things to feed us. The same as so many fathers—the factory smell of someone’s father’s hands. He taught you how to tie your shoes by tying his work boots. The palm calluses on his roughened palms. The smell of aftershave and diesel.

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