My Father’s Hats
by Mark Irwin
Sunday mornings I would reach
high into his dark closet while standing
on a chair and tiptoeing reach
higher, touching, sometimes fumbling
the soft crowns and imagine
I was in a forest, wind hymning
through pines, where the musky scent
of rain clinging to damp earth was
his scent I loved, lingering on
bands, leather, and on the inner silk
crowns where I would smell his
hair and almost think I was being
held, or climbing a tree, touching
the yellow fruit, leaves whose scent
was that of clove in the godsome
air, as now, thinking of his fabulous
sleep, I stand on this canyon floor
and watch light slowly close
on water I can’t be sure is there.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- How I saved Planet Earth by Raj Arumugam
- Written With A Slate Pencil On A Stone, On The Side Of The Mountain Of Black Comb by William Wordsworth
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- White in the Moon the Long Road Lies poem – A. E. Housman
- The Sad Shepherd by William Butler Yeats
- Portrait in Black and White by Marjorie Kanter
- Here Pause: The Poet Claims At Least This Praise by William Wordsworth
- on the edge of the seat by Raj Arumugam
- An Ode of the Birth of our Saviour by Robert Herrick
- For The Future by Wendell Berry
- The Worlds Greatest Smoke Off by Shel Silverstein
- Олег Бундур – Вид с задней парты
- Astrophel and Stella: XXXIX by Sir Philip Sidney
- Images by Mary Etta Metcalf
- Аля Кудряшева – Вечер большого дня
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