The crescent review

ISBN: 9781887310086

定价: 72.00

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ALF WAY A GA IN
iii i i i i i
regg Cusick
F THERE S A TIME OF DAY WHEN I WONDER MOST WHAT THE POINT IS) I-HAT T
is early morning about six??? the hour my dogs and many people feel charged
full of purpose??? when the sun hits the old windows of this cabin my dad b
almost entirely by himself. I ll lie here on the iron cot with its loud springs
orsehair mattress heavy as a bundle of asphalt shingles. I ll wonder sometir
he didn t make himself a nice bed; and I think of him on this creaky lurr
with a woman and almost laugh.
gut it s natural??? I guess??? for me to look around the place and think of my d
he put everything here together the way it is. That??? too??? is full of contrad
~ There are the stunning eighteenth-century leaded glass windows??? six-or
; all wavy and bubbled. Yet they re surrounded by fake-oak paneling in thJ
e four rooms that comes off looking cheesy??? like a shortcut.
spent some time building houses myself??? which is why??? maybe??? I look arou
a more critical eye. My father taught me a good bit about the trade thougl
~othing to do with putting this place together. I picked up a bunch more w0r
~mstruction??? pounding nails down south. My dad built this cabin six years ag
he and my mother split. I came along later??? after I sort of lost my compa
my dad died and nay marriage fell apart and 1 stopped drinking so muc
gh not necessarily in that order???
;o not quite a year ago I came back here??? to small-town upstate New York. iV
n came partly at the request of my father s not-so-silent partner??? more of
keeper??? childless himself??? who d said to me??? laughing at the radio station
\"Someday all of this will be yours!\" So I came back and started living in th
and bartending at a local tavern and working also at this little AM stati0
e my father gave the farm reports and the ball scores and talked some politic
aelped people with their call-in problems for the last twenty years of his life.
n his element??? my mother used to say. She d say this in a way that was kin(
Imiring----since he was doing something he really cared about--and kind 0
r??? because the radio business had him devoting his energy to other pe0p!t
gets she d call them. Which wasn t really true??? because he hit me more tlI
than I could ever count if I started right now??? lying in bed??? and kept up untE
text election.
io I get up about six??? shower??? and feed and water my two hounds. I don ttt~J~
he radio at this hour??? though I do listen to the station at night some!i~
nmgs i preter the silences. Broken by grinding coffee??? maybe deer rustling jn ~
us ou~ide??? dogs collar tags jangling in time with their paces. Usuatly by s~i???~
~.oCOttee and newspaper and am headed into town??? on my way to my On~
~o ~ation??? - \" \" |