Step(Fathering) on Eggshells
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The angry eyes glaring from across the room, remind me that I hated my stepfather too. Mine was vain and loud. He sang his foreplay in the mirror in falsetto, rocked the bed frames
until she cried out, then strutted the halls in open boxers like a rooster with a horse’s dick. Now, I have inherited that role. And my dowry,
a second son, sleeps across the hall and measures me with piercing eyes, so I love his mother passionately, but with quiet restraint, so that one day, measuring his own manhood
he might take pride in the length of his temper and know why he never saw even the head of mine. [End Page 31]
Frank X Walker is the editor of PLUCK! The Journal of Affrilachian Arts & Culture and currently serves as Lecturer of English and Artist in Residence at Northern Kentucky University. He is the author of four collections of poetry and the co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets.
