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My Father at Twenty-Nine, and: In Medias Res
- Prairie Schooner
- University of Nebraska Press
- Volume 80, Number 1, Spring 2006
- pp. 189-190
- 10.1353/psg.2006.0096
- Article
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My Father at Twenty-Nine, and: In Medias Res
Dwaine Spieker
My Father at Twenty-Nine
In the denim of dawn,
he sat at his end of the kitchen table
to buckle his workboots.Leaning forward,
his back was a pasture of muscle
as the sun broke over it.Already, this early,
he carried the sky. [End Page 189]
In Medias Res
The cardinal landed
and said:There is no beginning,
only the point at which
you began to pay attention.
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