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National Poetry Month: David Williamson reads Lights home for daughter
Lights home for daughter
11:05pm: escape is more than crossing rivers
septembering nowhere towns
more than unknotting cutter scars under lace gloves
it is more than Jerome’s hashpipe
in the pocket of your knapsack
less than his guitar silent in your closet
2:09am: backhome buzzing stars blind
to a crescent moon taking lonesome root
in dirt black sky
golden green night whispers dance
before tamarack orange autumn truth
the fall like childhood
change spent south
3:51am: kookum’s paper jesus book mark
a fifty dollar bill
dried tiger lilies
pressed into Cohen
Highway 6 south of 53
a half white grey gosling
spinning your hours away
in a travelling neighborhood
everyone is homeless
hoping perhaps the next stop
may claim one
5:55am: begging others your quiet
these southern trees wear different costumes
hide in sleepy sunrises
you did not finish
summer’s dance
this road a life prayer
you—blood river collected
in bone bowl memory
more than a rope loophole
for a guitar-playing boy named Jerome
his whispered breath
clinging to your coat tails still
8:25am: “I need to know home” you text me
David Yerex Williamson lives next to the Nelson River in Norway House, Manitoba with his family and three orphaned dogs. When not writing, David shovels a lot of snow, cuts fire wood, and works for the University College of the North. His work has appeared in Aesthetica, Quint, and Contemporary Verse 2.
“Lights home for daughter” was first published in Contemporary Verse 2 Vol. 37 No. 2 (Fall 2014).
The Winnipeg Free Press will be running poems by Manitoba poets every weekday in April to celebrate National Poetry Month. The NPM in the WFP Project was edited by Ariel Gordon.