1966\u2014 my father sets a field on fire with his friend
\nor his friend\u2019s friend; with matches or a gun or cheap fireworks<\/p>\n
sparking a thin corrosion, a sputtering
\nspine in the sky. The story morphs each time.<\/p>\n
This was back in the day when trouble was escorted,
\nnot by handcuffs or a scruffy face<\/p>\n
pressing pavement, but by cops who talked to parents
\nwho told their sons you\u2019re lucky you didn\u2019t get killed.<\/p>\n
He told me I was a hound of a child, stick of dynamite
\nswaddling his foot. That I loved to scream\u2014<\/p>\n
not in the desperate pitch, but to hear the hidden edges
\nof my voice; to light them all aflame. Each time<\/p>\n
he swore he heard the boom of a gun, the screech
\nof a match. The whip of a dreamland glowing.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
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