Two Poems
“What I Know of Country” by Richard Blanco
“My First Derby Party” by Barbara Kingsolver
A Poem
Home
by ljkemp
The sun shines bright, I squint at the sky
and consider how far I’ve run
There was a time when anywhere was
better than here. Here was home,
where nothing happened, nothing except
the dissolution of family
An empty kitchen with a microwave,
an empty yard with uncut grass
an empty dining room with empty chairs
Even the memories ran off for awhile
they too, needed time to heal
until it was safe to return
alongside the comfort of new ones
I wondered if that feeling would ever come,
tried to stay away, but home was home.
Italicized lines:
The opening line is from the Kingsolver poem, the last phrase is from Blanco’s poem.
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