Particles: New and Selected Poems. Dan Gerber

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      In Michigan

      1

      Here like the tropics

      in summer

      in the forest, in the lake

      or where the forest ends

      a desert of dry grass and stones

      over dirt roads, the heat

      making you one with

      the air

      and thus not being one

      separate

      from that which surrounds you

      You rise in early morning

      and for an hour

      feel yourself

      the boy again

      in love with summer

      the heat, the baking sun

      the indolence of planning

      nothing for tomorrow

      2

      I never knew

      my father as a young man

      forty-four when I was born

      fifty as young as I remember him

      but in the brown photographs

      from “the Great War”

      he is young, younger than I

      and he calls me

      to come back

      a dream that couldn’t escape

      the businessman

      who rose every dawn

      to his last years