A Polka Dot Red With the Smell of Snuff

 

My poem was recently published in the on-line journal Digital Paper, Issue Nineteen, Summer 2014.

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A Polkadot Red With The Smell Of Snuff

 

I said hello to a man in a truck

checking some asphalt patches on the pavement

He reminded me of my father

in his working clothes

& his khaki shirt

& his frisco jeans

& his old hat

& his wrinkles all over his brown face

& I remembered when I was four

& found my father’s handkerchief

in the back pocket of his workpants

& it was a polkadot red

& smelled of snuff

 

 

 

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