My Father's Funeral
By Frank Ormsby
The flypaper hung
from the ceiling cork-
screws with the weight
of dead bluebottles.
Not a smidgeon of dust anywhere,
the house burdened
with an unbearable tidiness
that means he will not return.
Copyright Credit:
Frank Ormsby, "My Father’s Funeral" from Goat’s Milk. Copyright © 2015 by Frank Ormsby. Reprinted by permission of Wake Forest University Press.
Frank Ormsby, "My Father’s Funeral" from Goat’s Milk. Copyright © 2015 by Frank Ormsby. Reprinted by permission of Wake Forest University Press.
Source: Goat's Milk (Wake Forest University Press, 2015)