Wild Gratitude by Edward Hirsch

Author:Edward Hirsch [Hirsch, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-76198-9
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2013-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

My father stacked crates of soap in a factory

and disappeared when I was three, a watery bucket

with a hole in it, a slippery white arm leaving

a soapy trail of blood. I was an erratic circle

rotating from a country village to a mother at home;

I was an orphaned circle searching for its center.

There’s a black iron that burns in my lungs

because my mother washed laundry in an aristocrat’s

house; she ironed a gentleman’s white collars,

and creased his gray slacks, and steamed his jackets.

Sometimes my diminutive mother carried a skillet

of cold leftovers home for us to devour.

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