Doug Roy, Crane, Cut Paper
Triolet for My Father Confessing His Primal Fear
Cancer is the first word he says
when I tell him about Ellen
in the hospital. First thing he thinks is
cancer. The first word he says
because it took his father, mother, always
its dreadful clutch, maybe now his sister, again
cancer, that first word he says
when I tell him about Ellen.
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Bill Griffin