Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting by Kevin Powers
Author:Kevin Powers
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2014-03-31T16:00:00+00:00
with their late spring blanketing of pollen underneath
the unreal quality of light in which we lived, until I climbed
into the seat beside him, that rag he had
by then begun to cough into
already resting on his knee.
The Torch and Pitchfork Blues
Whoever picks up the last of the thrown jacks
while the ball still bounces off the pavement
and hangs suspended in the kicked-up playground dust
must also retrieve the history of the ground
where it will land. There are rules. Tell us,
boy, called out on eenie, if you
have guessed them yet. Before there was
brushed nickel there was iron, before
Tommy Dunlap was pushed idly from the bus
into that busy intersection, there was
a plenitude of grief already. Measured
against all that, a single incident recedes
into no biggie, just a memory that will help
to make his fourth-grade classmates cautious,
for a time at least, until they can no longer take
the weight of that third and fourth look down the street
when crossing into any kind of danger.
It doesn’t matter, can’t, and even if the impact
of that moment could be measured, we cannot say
with any certainty that Sara Albertson,
ten years after, could have resisted
making dainty track marks in the crook
of her elbow, between her toes, and I have heard,
when it was at its worst, into her eyes.
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