For Sarah
I wept
your mother’s pain,
wept her joy at your birth
as your small fist gripped my finger,
pulled hard,
drew me
into this world
of little girls where my
male coarseness fell like blinders from
flawed eyes.
Paul Newman in Hombré
(Hollywood Western, 1967)
The blue
apocalypse
of his eyes a cold well
those less worthy must drink from to
survive.

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