Willow Grove, Pennsylvania, 1930
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At some point he must have turned and lefthis brother under the ice, entered a warm roomand taken off his wet things. He would assumethe papers got the story right, the lake under driftsof late snow, the number of boys playing hockey(seven), the number he pulled to safety (five),hand over hand with a branch, the one survivedby parents, sisters, a brother who had been lucky
enough to be near the muddy bank, who later leftthe seminary before he took his vows, lefthis wife when their sons were small, tried to atonefor it after a decade, to pick up where they leftoff—left the door ajar, left the light on, leftthe reception for a smoke, left well enough alone.
B. K. Fischer is the author of Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2006). Her poems have appeared in The Paris Review, Boston Review, Ekphrasis, Southwest Review, and other journals. She teaches at the Hudson Valley Writers' Center and the Neuberger Museum of Art.
