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make a poem out of nothing

JC Talamantez

 

maybe some men just

 

    amass an immovable nature

 

your father would’ve turned sixty today

 

    —a few times at his mother’s / you could be alone with him

 

he returning—military—

from some place you didn’t understand

 

put headphones so you wouldn’t watch Halloween—he loved horror movies

 

and dark legs land-bound on the precise blanket

 

   below a window riot

   of apricot, on hill country summer

 

   paint each leaf

 

but an absent father’s jovial Spanish, is still just a man

you don’t know

 

and he was in the sky missing feathers

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JC Talamantez

JC Talamantez’s work has appeared in Poetry Northwest, New Ohio Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Salamander, Smartish Pace, The Hopkins Review, Frontier Poetry, Boulevard, Water~Stone Review, Nimrod, Colorado Review, The Florida Review, and others. She teaches humanities courses across a number of disciplines.