{Photograph} by Stephen DiRado
Sitting on the porch of the home
the daddy doesn’t keep in mind is his personal,
the daughter confides to the daddy
that her love for him has develop into
a trapped animal. The daddy, virtually deaf,
doesn’t hear the daughter. Within the daughter’s
humid periphery, the daddy turns into
a youthful model of himself. Hovering
close to the hinge between actual and imaginary,
the daughter and her younger father
exist solely so long as the trapdoor’s
capability to the touch gravity. The daddy,
additionally imagining, snaps the daughter out
of her imaginative and prescient. He says, I wish to go dwelling.
Are you able to please take me dwelling now.
