Zócalo Public SquareThe Drunk – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 The Drunk https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/10/19/the-drunk/chronicles/poetry/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2012/10/19/the-drunk/chronicles/poetry/#respond Fri, 19 Oct 2012 07:01:12 +0000 by Jeff Oaks http://new.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=39145 The wind is sharpening its knives
on my father come in the dark
toward home, half wreckage,
half-bear in Christ’s cold garden.
His tongue is quit, tied,
flat: the journey shakes
in his steering. Father, father,
it is too far to the river.
Whatever you are,
I didn’t know. I couldn’t.

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on my father come in the dark
toward home, half wreckage,
half-bear in Christ’s cold garden.
His tongue is quit, tied,
flat: the journey shakes
in his steering. Father, father,
it is too far to the river.
Whatever you are,
I didn’t know. I couldn’t.

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