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Book: Imagining the Future - Ruminations on Fathers and Other Masculine Apparitions by Magdalena Ball & Carolyn Howard-Johnson
categories: Book, Men's Poetry, Father's Day Poetry, Celebration Series, Magdalena Ball, Military Poetry, Patriotic Poetry, Nostalgic Poetry, PoetryCarolyn Howard-Johnson

"[Both poets] have an incredible gift with literary imagery."
~ Darcia Helle
From Deciphering Earliest Remembered Sound
1942
All the sound in the world sucked
to a wavering, wailing note
I perch on my father's knee,
afraid, look thought our window.
Utah's lights snuff quickly, quickly,
silver sequins turn dark
until the skyline disappears
against deep velvet. There,
among our overstuffed chairs
doilies protect fat rolled arms.
The siren whine turns to silence.
What could that have been?
Oh, nothing. An air raid,
my mother answers
as if her words were lyrics
she wanted to forget.
Would the lights return
charged with sound that split
my father's hand from mine.
Father wears a khaki cap, grosgrain robbons
across his heart; smells of gabardine
and good-byes. His eyelids twitch.
Mother, once again, says
Oh probably nothing at all.
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