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A
House That Falls
by Sean Nevin
2005, 30 pages
Winner of the 2005 Sapering
Hol Press Chapbook Competition.
"Losing
Solomon"
We
estimate a man by how much he remembers.
~
RALPH
WALDO EMERSON
Things
seem to take on a sudden shimmer
before vanishing: the polished black loafers
he wore yesterday, the reason for climbing
the stairs, even the names of his
own children
are swallowed like spent stars against the dark
vault of memory. Today the
toaster gives up
its silver purpose in his hands, becomes a radio,
an
old Philco blaring a ball game from the 40's
with Jackie Robinson squaring
up to the plate.
For
now, it's simple; he thinks he is young again,
maybe nineteen, alone in a
kitchen. He is staring
through his own reflection in the luster and hoping
against hope that Robinson will clear the bases
with a ball knocked so far
over the stadium wall
it becomes a pigeon winging up into the brilliance.
And
perhaps, in one last act of alchemy,
as Jackie sails around third, he will
transform
everything, even the strange and forgotten face
glaring back
from the chrome, into something
familiar, something Solomon could know as
his own.
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