INTERCEPTION: a pantoum

INTERCEPTION: a pantoum

(1)

Oh those boys with their butch haircuts

and kool-aid grins

(2)

Are sitting around the kitchen table

with the four chrome legs

(3)

Eating your brown sugar sandwiches again Mom

(4)

Your four sons have their favorite plastic

drinking glasses and me too Mom

(1)

Are sitting around the kitchen table

with the four chrome legs

(2)

Their pushing, running, playing,

going, being, doing, Mom

(3)

Your four sons have their favorite plastic

drinking glasses and me too Mom

(4)

never

move

Mom

(1)

Their camping, fishing, hunting, canoeing, yelling, Mom

(2)

My arms and legs are missing and my face is a blur

(3)

never

move

Mom

(4)

I went to

(1)

My arms and legs are missing and my face is a blur

(2)

My lips are folded in my pocket

(3)

I went to

(4)

Those boys Mom are dancing, living, loving, having

(1)

My lips are folded in my pocket

(2)

never

ing

Mom

(3)

Those boys are

(4)

You said nothing

(1)

never

(2)

Eating your brown sugar

(3)

You said

(4)

Oh those boys with their butch haircuts

and kool-aid grins

Althea St. Amand, French-Canadian/American, now works and studies in San Francisco.

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