Black Aperture by Matt Rasmussen

Author:Matt Rasmussen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

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All night, snow fell

like ash through a glass of water.

Everyone’s lawns sleep

under a large empty page.

On the way to the funeral home

I could feel your note

folded into my shirt pocket,

cupping my chest like a passport

from a country wiped

off the world. When we stop

to get gas I look at my hands.

I’m wearing your gloves.

Dad, alone in the cold

outside, waits for the tank

to fill. Across the street,

kids build a man out of snow.

III

OUTGOING

Our answering machine still played your message,

and on the day you died Dad asked me to replace it.

I was chosen to save us the shame of dead you

answering calls. Hello, I have just shot myself.

To leave a message for me, call hell. The clear cassette

lay inside the white machine like a tiny patient

being monitored or a miniature glass briefcase

protecting the scroll of lost voices. Everything barely

mattered and then no longer did. I pressed record

and laid my voice over yours, muting it forever

and even now. I’m sorry we are not here, I began.

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