The Water Between Us by Shara McCallum

Author:Shara McCallum [McCallum, Shara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780822980766
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Jamaica, October 18, 1972

You tell me about the rickety truck:

your ride in back among goats or cows—

some animal I can't name now—

the water coming down your legs,

my father beside you, strumming

a slow melody of darkened skies

and winter trees he only dreamed

on his guitar. The night was cool.

That detail you rely on each time

the story is told: the one story

your memory serves us better

than my own. I doubt even that night

you considered me, as I lay inside you,

preparing to be born. So many nights

after it would be the same.

You do not remember anything,

you say, so clearly as that trip:

animal smells, guitar straining for sound,

the water between us becoming a river.

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