Written by Claudia Coleman
That was the day momma told us kids
To go out somewhere,
So we wouldn’t be here when the men
Came to take daddy away.
That was the day my heart stumbled,
Clutched at the empty air.
And I leaned on my brothers
For something, I didn’t know what.
I don’t remember where we went,
Cut loose, like strays,
Into the long afternoon. The dogs
Barking signaled our cold hearth.
Their call echoes still,
The brittle grayness of it all.
My father’s love that day
Glistened into a haze of shards,
In the
frozen,
empty
air.
Text © Claudia Coleman
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