Dislodgings
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in memory of Stephanie Pinson
There is a permanent sadnessin every small departure,every door returned to its jamb,that makes things more fertilelike an echo that doesn’t resolvebut resonates faintlyon beyond fading.
At the flea marketthe son of a man who wrecks homeshas salvaged from rubblea stained glass windowwith a small panel missing.
He knows the value of windowswe can’t see anything throughexcept light, rippled and tinted,as it makes the room of wool rugs and wicker,turned pots and wrought iron, changewith amber and green and,through the missing pane,daylight where the blue light was. [End Page 73]
Alan Nadel, William T. Bryan Chair in American Literature and Culture at the University of Kentucky, is the author of many books on post-World War II American culture and media, including Containment Culture, The Theatre of August Wilson, and, most recently, Demographic Angst: Cultural Narratives and American Films of the 1950s. His poetry has appeared in several journals, including: Georgia Review, New England Review, Partisan Review, Paris Review, and Shenandoah.
