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Garage Sale/Retrospective
March 30, 2007 |
[-poetry, photography-]
by Carson A. Metzger
Father made the last sale - a stop
watch bought vacationing off
a South Padre beach, used to time the sprints
of his two sons, footprints in the sand -
Sold! to the tweed jacket,
the man who browsed the cutlery
like an academic inquiring into
the contours of the spatulas. From the contents
of the garage, a ready-made Rauschenberg;
Mother emerged, having repaired the complaints
of her two children: her sewing hands and
History painted upon family
receipts. Leaving unsold, the itemized occasions
eviscerated upon tables; card tables
like connective tissue, linking skin
and bone stories of days of lamps and
curtains gained, pillows acquired,
dusty “gotta-have” devices,
cutting boards dusted with
flour. Father’s aching tools -
displaced like wisdom teeth
pulled out of aching mouths for display
on the mantle - rusted into acridity,
suffering prolonged
misanthropy: overused/forgotten,
put-off and unsold. His finger pricked and bleeding:
Blood not enmity, head high, and
smiling. Stacking dimes for nickels, for pennies,
for splitting money into quarters,
like split atoms of family,
genealogy, geography. Waving
good-byes to Mother, her moving van plump
with neglect: A collage of collectibles,
thimbles hawked and baseballs
sold. History - refuse/d
in the fraying pockets of strangers.
about the writer:
Carson lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he teaches writing and is a Phd candidate in American Studies at the University of New Mexico. He writes fiction, poetry, lyrics, songs and academic papers. He is also a musician and regularly performs his songs in Albuquerque. His paper on collections and Friendster will be published soon in a soon-to-be-released anthology. Carson’s singer/songwriter site: carsonmetzger.net
Originally published in the October 2005 issue of The Practically Creative Quarterly, theme: collections
also posted in: Photography , Poetry , The Original PCQ, 05-06 , Contributors , Creations
tags: collections, garage sale, poem, poet, poetry, retrospective, writing
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