Jay Checks His Father into a Home (2014)

Jay Checks His Father into a Home (2014)

(August 22, 2014) Jay Checks His Father into a Home. Phantom Billstickers: Poetry on Posters Programme. Ed. Kelly Wilson & Iain Dalziel. Poetry Central (Auckland: Central City Library).

Jay Checks His Father into a Home

We’re looking for something
      fairly urgent here
      he can’t walk very far

so the en-suite
      is apposite
      as for the rubbish bins

below his window
      there’s trees beyond
      even a peep of sea

& the strange feral
      creature roaming
      in his sandals

ratty t-shirt
      haunting hunted
      look might really

be quite kind
      might really
      – who knows? –

turn into a friend

(11-17/12/12)

Phantom Billstickers. The Imaginary Museum (23/7/14)

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