Monday, January 24, 2011

In The 3-By-3 Photograph


The ceramic walls and ceilings
Gleam 1950s pink Tamarisk
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The appliances whiter than I remember
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My father blurry, but smiling
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My mother slightly behind
------and reaching
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I am alive
but completely hidden
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Beneath the Twister dots
My mother blouses in
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A cake with nineteen candles
flickers in the foreground
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A yellow-ribboned gift waits
For my father
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I use a magnifying glass to see
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The orange and blue pyramid
On Father's work shirt
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Could say Angel's Citgo
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Father is holding a May 1964
Copy of Look Magazine
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Mother and child on the cover
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TRAVEL US
Three
American
Journeys
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On Father's fourth finger someone
Has placed a wedding ring

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