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Father and Son

 

They both know the difficulty of painting is prep work. 

And in July’s apathy they scrape patches of sky from a house’s body

Pour piles of pale slivers from drop cloths,

Sweep cloud chips from sidewalks, sand stubborn clumps

Of paint, erase years the house had endured, the body of seasons

It satisfied.  Their fingers ache,

Their shadows burn.  They caulk and prime

And sit in the grass to eat cold sandwiches.  They smoke

While the sun glares off their painter’s whites.

And when evening comes deliberate and resigned

Like a young man approaching his life, they undo

The day’s equipment: fold drop cloths, clean brushes,

Hide the paint in the shed.  This is what a son can share

With a father: the muscle’s simple elegy,

The litany of coffee, aspirin, water, beer, the slow churning

Of truck tires going home.



Originally published in the Blue Collar Review

 

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