Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNET, by PALMER. MICHAEL


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First Line: Now I see them sitting me before a mirror
Subject(s): Fathers; Numbers


Now I see them sitting me before a mirror.
There's noise and laughter. Somebody
mentions that hearing is silver
before we move on to Table One
with the random numbers. I look down
a long street containing numbers.
A white four leans against the fence
and disappears. In the doorway
is the seven, then the x
painted red so you can find it
more easily. Five goes by
without its cap. My father wears
the second x. He has a grey cloud
for a face, and dark lines for arms





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