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Dad, you are not
all right.
This business
of being
a cake,
the cake
left in the rain.
These claims
and drawings—
family trees
with great men
and without mom.
These phantom limbs.
You’re sewing
the velvet curtain
shut.
Come out.
Say you are just a man.
Art by Maggie Nowinski.
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Elizabeth Barnett lives in Kansas City. Her recent work has appeared in Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, and Poetry Northwest.
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