Half Curse
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As he was riding home to visit his mother,the train slowed to a standstill. Heavy weather.He didn’t like to think about his father,
much less take after him, but like his fatherhe loved to curse. He started snarling, “Mother — ”over the low roar of the gray, wet weather
thrashing outside. He paused, wondering whethersome kid would stare, or laugh, if he went further.(Was it this same checked impulse, or some other,
that used to help his mother weather his father?) [End Page 640]
Austin Allen
Austin Allen’s first poetry collection, Pleasures of the Game (Way-wiser Press, 2016), was awarded the Anthony Hecht Poetry Prize. He is a doctoral student in creative writing at the University of Cincinnati.
