For Dad:
A college experiment on rockets and
solid fuel. With
carbon and sulfur
and amonium
perchlorate that
should have been
potassium nitrate
in a combustion chamber
that exploded into
fear, pain and loss, as
his hands became
birds fluttering
forlornly to the earth.
Brothers and friends,
and a wife who
would love him
without pity, and
teach him to
use his wits with
eggs and greased doorknobs.
A new hand, made with bands
and cables, straps and sockets,
levers, liners, and a hook.
and people ask me what
it’s like to have a father with
steel for flesh
They think that hands and fingers,
nerves and blood are the only
way your dad can touch you.
but a hook is
the best for swinging
on, playing tricks,
turning logs, pounding
nails, Halloween
and chasing away nightmares
And a thumb...
a thumb can
caress a baby’s
cheek just as
well as a whole hand
- amy luise dent -
Fall 1995
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