Sunday, October 25, 2015

Dana Hootman

I can’t remember his son’s first name
And I am sure his son remembers little
Of him, having been only two when his father
Died very suddenly of a burst
Appendix. The danger to his life
Had been disguised by his large weight.
No one could see the scars he carried,
Stitched by his sentiments and soaked
With the kind of creativity that people
Would not see in so rough a frame, lumber
And sweat fit better than stained glass
And poetry. Where could such loves
End him?  I hope his son will read
This some day, not as an epitaph

Or an elegy, but the removal of disguises.

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