The 2River View | 23.4 (Summer 2019) |
Cameron Morse Mississippi Singalong We wake to the clink of the wind. We walk in the cold. Whose house is this? Before which we balk. Even though we’re worn out now, Trespassing Stray with me. Fasten and fixate. Go, investigate. and extension ladders lying on their sides. these gascans, iceboxes, It’s unlikely that you will remember this, in the pre-dawn where I don my coveralls. What does the water have to say? What does the light just call me Daddy? I know you know some words. of the Mississippi. Let me lean over. Cameron Morse is the author of Fall Risk, won Glass Lyre Press’s 2018 Best Book Award, and Father Me Again (Spartan Press). The chapbook Coming Home with Cancer is forthcoming from Blue Lyra Press.
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