Lessons of the Sea: On the Sun Deck

38 THE MINNESOTA REVIEW LARRY RUBIN LESSONS OF THE SEA: ON THE SUN DECK Watching die play of fadiers and sons The four-year-old stretched out on the brown torso Wrestling into all the intersections The taste of muscle SmeU of warm lumber and vine— I see into die sum of all my fadier's days The sun extending memory past the pivot point Toward die wrestling matches he forgot to hold TUl I remember a passionate appointment And tiirough the seas ofjealousy I swim To wrestle with this father, press his groin Drown him in the burstings of his son ...