{"id":2881,"date":"2013-08-23T20:04:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=2881"},"modified":"2022-10-20T11:24:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T15:24:33","slug":"half-lit-houses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/half-lit-houses\/","title":{"rendered":"Half-Lit Houses"},"content":{"rendered":"

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paper \u2022 82 pages \u2022 14.95
\nISBN-10:\u00a01-884800-52-1<\/p>\n

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Half-Lit Houses<\/em><\/h1>\n

Tina Chang<\/h2>\n

MY FATHER DREAMS<\/p>\n

He is shrinking by degrees
\nbut no one is counting.<\/p>\n

To the East, fishermen cast nets
\nover his children.To the West,
\nrocks fill up his wife’s shoes.
\nShe will never walk again.<\/p>\n

Even when he is standing
\nlike a headless nail, a battered fish,
\nhe refuses all the food that is given him.<\/p>\n

His bones have made islands of themselves.
\nThe soul begins to speak:
\nspoon, ladle, malice in his mouth.
\nThe body, a cage. Sundown.<\/p>\n

His fingers fall away from his face.
\nOne day he will wander away
\nfrom home and will not recognize
\nanyone who tries to stop him.<\/p>\n

Three weeks later he will come home
\nfrom rain dying of fever.
\nBut he will die of hunger first.<\/p>\n

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