we kissed exchanged pleasantries and unpleasantries pulled a

warm comforting silence around us and read separate books.

Sundays too my father got up early and

put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,

i taught it to my son who recited it for her just to say we must learn to

bear the pleasures as we have borne the pains

she was very deliberately waiting perhaps for my father to come home from his night job or

maybe for a dream that had promised to come by

When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would...

...rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,

Papa, come home because I decided a while back

I wanted to be just like you But I'm forgetting who you are

What did I know, What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? The adult speaker...

knows more about his father’s love than he did as a child

that night i stumbled into the kitchen maybe because i’ve always been a night person or

perhaps because i had wet the bed

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1
we kissed exchanged pleasantries and unpleasantries pulled a
warm blanket and sat around reading books
warm comforting silence around us and read separate books.
comfort of silence between us while we sat together
warmth between us as we read
2
Sundays too my father got up early and
put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,
put his clothes on in the winter cold,
put his clothes on in the cold frost,
put his clothes on in the aching cold with cracked hands,
3
i taught it to my son who recited it for her just to say we must learn to
see the moon as the moon sees me
birth the pleasures and the pains
bear the good with the bad
bear the pleasures as we have borne the pains
4
she was very deliberately waiting perhaps for my father to come home from his night job or
maybe for the moon to come and rescue me
maybe for a moment to dream a big dream
maybe a promised that I dreamed about
maybe for a dream that had promised to come by
5
Speaking indifferently to him, who had...
...banked fires blaze with cracked hands
...driven out the cold
...warmed the house
... never been thanked
6
When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would...
...rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house,
...rise and dress afraid of my father
...rise and dress never thanking him,
...rise and put my clothes on in the blueblack cold
7
Yes, we are our fathers' sons and daughters
But we need them to survive
But we are not their choices
And we will teach ourselves in their absence
And we will never forget them
8
Papa, come home because I decided a while back
I wanted to learn how to dribble
I wanted to learn how to shave
I wanted to be just like you But I'm forgetting who you are
I wanted you to teach me about love
9
What did I know, What did I know of love's austere and lonely offices? The adult speaker...
the adult expresses his anger toward his father.
does not appreciate his father
knows more about his father’s love than he did as a child
The adult speaker realizes that he was a naughty boy.
10
that night i stumbled into the kitchen maybe because i’ve always been a night person or
perhaps because i waited for daddy to come home
perhaps because she was lonely
perhaps because i had wet the bed
perhaps because i enjoyed watching mommy

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