Traumatic Brain Injury

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Traumatic Brain Injury 

“Just a couple weeks,”
he said, each time 
his father—demented 
with a feeding tube,

frail enough to pick up—
begged to go home, 
which evoked
the memory of his father 

telling him the same, 
decades back, before 
a social worker drove him 
to a foster home.

*This poem is unpublished

Painting by Paul Klee: Motif from Hammamet 57 (1914)