The Eyes

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The Eyes

My father brought us into
a closet, tomb-dark. “Feel them,”
he said, so we did, my brother
and I gently touching the two
wet orbs in his hand.

He said they were his eyes.

What he didn’t tell us
was he’d spent all morning
peeling grapes, getting his
prank just right.

I thought of my mother; her constant
refrain “Can’t you see you’re
killing me,” now made perfect
sense: of course he couldn’t.

And all those mornings I crept
into his bedroom, him saying
that he needed to rest
his eyes, made me wonder
where exactly did he rest them.

Sighing, my father ushered us
out of the closet and back into
the kitchen’s Formica gleam.
He popped one of the eyes
into his mouth as horrified,
I watched him feed
the other to my brother.

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from Late Lights, released July 3, 2018

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