[Realpoetik] Jack Lynch

[RealPoetik Magazine]

WAVES OF CHILDREN

Through the two mouths of the house
        the wind blew in, blew out.

One by one with our two names we came:

        Maureen Harriet
        Barbara Marie
        Paul Thaddeus
        James Henry
        Margaret Mary
        Michael Kenneth
        Thomas Joseph
        Theresa Jean
        & me


Which birth marked the turn
from *few* to *many*?  Whose
departing left none?

Now from hospitals
two by two
we bring you, Mother.

Still,
through these doors,
waves of children.
This wind.


*Jack Lynch* received a Bachelors of Fine Arts from the New School, and is a
graduate of Hunter College’s MFA Creative Writing Program. His work has
appeared in *Ology, POZ Magazine, The Paterson Literary Review, The Bellevue
Literary Review*, and *Diva Complex: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire
Them*, edited by Michael Montlack and published by University of Wisconsin
Press.


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