Given History

a night readers
light blooms
through his curtains
his fathers army issued belt buckle
bookmark
this lifelong exhaustion

Circumspection
two bachelor
brothers still
drink coffee
at their
mothers house
sometimes
holidays and
funerals

One Thousand, One Hundred and Ten Miles Home for Dinner
he left his
beaten shoes
by the couch
galvestons sand
still in the laces

Background

train horn
eight siblings and a mother huddle around the television
americans, migratory
like salmon, they always return to the place of their birth.