An excerpt from Section 3: My Father Dressing Me as Zorro, taken from the poem Listening to Coltrane on the 4th of July”: Now I’ve lowered a mask over my face The eye-slits don’t fit, and I can’t see. I scent the smoke of his cigarette. I tell him they turned off the electricity, the gas and phone, that neighbors fed us after he left. I’m feeling in the gift box for a toy rapier, which I wave between us. He tells me to stop horsing around: this close, one of us is likely to get hurt.
- ISBN13 9780976041368
- Publish Date 30 November 2006
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Southeast Missouri State University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 28
- Language English