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To Katherine

HOME LOOKS LIKE Navajo Sandstone.
DREAM DINNER PARTY Hypatia of Alexandria, Mary Wollstonecraft, Marie Curie, Murasaki Shikubu, Sappho, Toni Morrison.
PERSONAL MOTTO The first draft is SUPPOSED to be terrible.

Before the Divorce

Before modular jacks,
My father’s business phone
Was in our house.

Sick of business, and tired
Of answering the ring,
He put the phone in the refrigerator,
Next to the cottage cheese.

When silence wasn’t enough,
He put my mother’s Boston Fern
In the vegetable crisper,
And closed the door.

Before the Divorce

Before modular jacks,
My father’s business phone
Was in our house.

Sick of business, and tired
Of answering the ring,
He put the phone in the refrigerator,
Next to the cottage cheese.

When silence wasn’t enough,
He put my mother’s Boston Fern
In the vegetable crisper,
And closed the door.

Katherine Sotol, 56

Seattle

 
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