man is god
and silent like god
all weather and weatherless
crescent moon and dying eye
this side of the world and that
he creates and destroys
comes from night with a new secret
ages and dies
mother cooks
hassles and sends
the children like affirmations into dawn
the tufts of children
the wonderwork
father calls from work
never anything deep
just a stern hello
and a hurrying back to toil
he eats sleeps
and loses friends
waters the yard
father knows everyone
his eyes say so
all things accessed
friend or foe
cancer is a curse word
like wishing it so
never say it
never bring it into our house
