Saturday, May 20, 2000



When a Son Leaves

With yellow pen
my outlined hand print hits
bright paper like a
Mexican sunflower,
but belies a saddened heart.

We fought, you skipped out.
Omaha was never your town.
Now through this timescape
window I see clearly:
Circumstance inconvertible.

My good-bye hand
waves westward
then reaches dull, numb
to drink.



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