An Old Man, Full of Days
- An Old Man, Full of Days
Job, end days, language, poetry
In the end, everything turns outright, like the last ten versesof Job, where rings are givenin supplication and apology. Where sheepreappear in fields and stand bleatingnext to a thousand yoke ofoxen. Where the latter days areblessed more than the beginning. Whereeven ghosts of lost children standexhumed by the voices of newones, more fair than the first.In this ancient language, there isone meter for heated debate anda second for lament. There hasnever been any consideration of another. [End Page 37]
Matthew Minicucci is the author of two collections of poetry: Translation (Kent State University Press, 2015), chosen by Jane Hirshfield for the 2014 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, and Small Gods, forthcoming from New Issues in 2017. He is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, the Wick Poetry Center, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he received his MFA.
