Thrall by Natasha Trethewey

Author:Natasha Trethewey [Trethewey, Natasha]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I-10 from Mississippi to New Orleans—

and each time we pull off the highway

I see my father like this: raising his thumb

to feign hitchhiking—a stranger

passing through to somewhere else.

2.

At Wolf River my father is singing.

The sun is shining and there’s a cooler

of Pabst in the shade. He is singing

and playing the guitar—the sad songs

I hide from each time: a man pining

for Irene or Clementine, a woman dead

on a slab at Saint James. I’m too young to know

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