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# Scenes With My Father
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/scenes-with-my-father/
- Published: 2021-12-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-12-28T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: my earliest memory:
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

my earliest memory:

dad's semi-trailer  
parked in the background  
off the side of an empty road  
he took us with, this time  
hauling fruits and veggies  
halfway across a continent

mom and I are sitting  
by the campfire  
a small clearing  
in a sea of corn stalks

delicious corn on the cob  
a pot of coffee sizzles  
dad is using an ax  
to split firewood  
and feed the fire

a small splinter flies off  
and injures him,  
right under his right eye  
and a rivulet of bright  
crimson blood streams out

as I faint

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2795702-Trucking