Ash and Embers. James A. Zoller

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      to the matronly school mistress who had disciplined

      his boyishness, who watched from over his shoulder –

      like a predator – his orphaned hand.

      The perfect loops and paralleled spikes

      of my grandfather’s textbook cursive held

      for eighty years – growing large as if bold-

      ness were a remedy for failing eyes, a trembling pen,

      a dangerously erratic heart.

      He varied not a whit – even in the grip

      of his last illness – as if, still, to please her

      whose stern attentions were as close as he

      might ever imagine to a mother’s.

      Another Occasion

      Accept this from me

      as you might accept

      on another occasion

      a small, dried fish

      from the hand of an old man.

      You are in his kitchen

      sitting at his bare table.

      It is clean after

      the fashion of old men.

      Sunlight rides to the floor

      on motes of dust.

      The fish, on a small plate.

      You must be hungry,

      he urges, please eat.

      Accept this from me:

      Twenty years after his death

      my father appeared

      in a dream. He stood

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