<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355787" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Vanishing Act</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">my father is having to leave the house<br>with delicacy, easing the dead bolt open<br>in the dark. The house exhales him.<br>I'm thinking of a driving lay-up, of a girl<br>in homeroom, blue necklace, brown skin.<br>Transistor radio on my pillow, volume low.<br>I know some things, not enough. My eyes<br>are closed, I'm listening hard, that song<br>again, Knock down the old gray wall,<br>my father standing beside his car—gone,<br>key in his hand, snowflakes in his hair.<br>At dawn, an Indian head test pattern will stare<br>from the TV, the freezer will churn out<br>its automatic ice. On the windowsill<br>an iris in a vase will have taken<br>the last water into its cut stem. I will<br>notice it, how it is there, and had<br>stood there the whole time, that flower.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Chris+Forhan">Chris Forhan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=355787" data-title="Vanishing Act de Chris Forhan" data-description="my father is having to leave the house with delicacy, easing the dead bolt open in the dark. The house exhales him. I'm thinking of a driving lay-up, of a girl in homeroom, blue necklace, brown skin. Transistor radio on my pillow, volume low. I kn..."></div> </div> </div>

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