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There’s a Rowboat Covering
A Leak in the Roof
(last line from “He Brings Home Everything” by Jack Ridl)

David James

He sets one of those plastic fake puke novelties
in the corner of the living room by the couch
to cover an old blood stain.


Incense burns to mask the rotting meat
in the fridge.
There is blue painter’s tape
used as molding around the doors. The man slouches


and bends backward to slide under the ceiling fan
drying his underwear and shirts.
Aluminum cans become drinking glasses, toothpaste into grout,


cardboard into stiff bedroom drapes.
With a bottle of Kessler’s, he forgets how her soft hand
touched his face, how her lips felt against his.


The cell phone in a bucket of water keeps his children away.
And the small wooden cross, he uses as a table stand
for a vase of dried flowers next to the moldy grapes.

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