We low on daddies hereabouts
The fathers all but gone
Our lack a weight
a shape a drybone lake
By war by
drink by
gun by
drift
The father’s all but gone.
Atsuro Riley (USA)
Source: Poetry Magazine (Sept. 2017)
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