<div dir="auto"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: Poem-a-Day | Poets.org <<a href="mailto:poem-a-day@poets.org">poem-a-day@poets.org</a>><br>Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2018, 6:08 AM<br>Subject: "Our Father" by Jill McDonough<br>To: <a href="mailto:peggyclifford@gmail.com">peggyclifford@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:peggyclifford@gmail.com">peggyclifford@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><u></u>
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A year or two, mornings before school,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
our father came into our rooms with pliers. <br style="box-sizing:border-box">
My sisters and I crammed into Jordache<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
casings, Gloria Vanderbilts. We’d jump<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
into jeans, tug them up our ashy thighs, abrade<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
young skin with denim seams. Taut denimed butts<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
on polyester Holly Hobby bedspreads, until they<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
were painted on, until our arms ached, our fingers<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
hurt, until we were panting, exhausted, our smooth<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
foreheads beaded with sweat. Near tears as usual,<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
calling for help. After the first time, when he laughed<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
but then couldn’t grip the brass zipper, so ha ha dad<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
the joke’s on you, he kept pliers handy, grabbed<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
the pull tab, tugged it up the teeth so we<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
could button our own damn pants. What we think<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
we want. What we know. What do we know<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
when we ask for what we think we want? We pray<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
for ridiculous things, we humans. And so often are indulged.</p>
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“Humans want dumb stuff. It’s kind of sweet, once you can see it. This is a poem about remembering a dumb thing that was important to me once, something so basic it didn’t occur to me that it was important or dumb—it was just what I did. It was completely normal and totally insane, all at once. I assume there are lots of dumb things I am doing now that I also don’t question. Probably we all are. Maybe one day we’ll be able to look back and see them. But by then won’t we be doing new dumb stuff?”<br style="box-sizing:border-box">
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Jill McDonough’s most recent book is <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic">Reaper</em> (Alice James Books, 2017). She teaches in University of Massachusetts, Boston’s MFA program and directs 24PearlStreet, the Fine Arts Work Center online. She recently started a program teaching college reading and writing to people who are incarcerated. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.</p>
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<a href="https://academyofamericanpoets.cmail20.com/t/y-l-ktdrddy-jildkluruj-v/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;margin-right:0;margin-left:0;padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;padding-right:0;padding-left:0;border-width:0;font-size:inherit;font-variant:normal;font-family:inherit;line-height:normal;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:italic;color:inherit!important;font-weight:inherit!important">Reaper</em></a></p>
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