Sally Bliumis-Dunn
Bright rectangles on the living room wall
where pictures must have hung,
we slept in their old rooms.
And outside the old homestead,

a black cast-iron hitching post
though we owned no horses; round white
millstones like giant moons held down
in the overgrown meadow.

Father's past in our present—
sometimes we'd sense it poking through
the gravelly chop of his voice—
the tall grass in the fields

bending toward it, the shadows
beneath the blades.
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