
To My Father's House
Location
Canada
56° 7' 49.3176" N, 106° 20' 48.3756" W
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L'Beit Abba
"Roughly speaking, it was the sensation of being at the center of an explosion. There seemed to be a loud bang and a blinding flash of light all around me, and I felt a tremendous shock—no pain, only a violent shock, such as you get from an electric terminal; with it, a sense of utter weakness, a feeling of being stricken and shriveled up to nothing.” -George Orwell
The way my dad
responded
to neighbours
like neighbour Michael
smoking out back
on a fold-up chair,
his bald head
balding no further.
I hear from the neighbour's yard,
"Signor, your wife, she fell."
This poem is about:
Me
My family
My community
My country
Our world
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