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A sort of KADDISH for my dad. Dedicated to my brother Don.
The Hudson
was a misty
broad sheet
of placid water
that enveloped
the fine, powdery
spray of
fallible flesh and
brittle bone--
all that
was left of
the man.
The river slowly
dragged him downstream
past the
worn, world-weary
Bronx tenements
of his youth--
Then passing
the teeming city
he loved, left, but always returned to--
the very city
he cut his baby teeth in.
Finally
he was flushed out
to the
wide mouth
of the open sea
his essence--
where
he always
wanted
to be.
Reviews of "Hudson River: Casting My Father's Ashes"
New Poetry by Doug Holder
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