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Оглавление9. How not to stop
How not to stop
Pa came to collect us from school,
the stern drive home.
Pa sat at the head of the table,
not talking at supper.
Pa stood in the driveway with his back to us,
throwing seed into the wind
with quick slings of the hand, drawing
the pigeons as though he’d called them.
Pa carved his own domino set;
on weekend games sly as chess, slapping
the final piece on the wooden table.
Pa drove us home past the house he built,
from which his family was removed in ’68,
never looking again in its direction.
Pa bought his leaf tea and hard cheddar
from Queen Bess supermarket,
down the street from their old house.
Pa rehearsed how not to stop, not to get out
and walk to the front door he made.
