Kinship Patterns
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GENTLE BLOSSOMER For my father The cold stars In the half-dance Years later, By days, But at night And I, some ripe cocoon, Father,
of
memory,
a rumpled sleeping bag;
of those embers
I watched you kneel and pray.
past your prime,
you are still, at heart,
an unemployed scout master.
you practice the physician’s art.
you dream the plainness
of
into flannel shirts and ankle boots,
the starless gasp
of a mountain dawn.
hung between your love
and your prayers,
could burst into butterfly.
Gentle Blossomer,
let us kneel and pray.
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About the Book
Kinship Patterns is a full length collection of poetry by Terrance Oberst. It is a series of biographical sketches or “tribute” poems divided into 4 sections: “Family,” “Friends,” “Elegies” for those who have passed on and “A Final Poem For A Friend,” a long recollection of an individual met while hitchhiking up the coast of California. It is a book of poetic memoirs, people the poet has lived with, laughed with, cried over and loved.
About the Author
Terrance Oberst received his M.A. degree in Creative Writing from The University of Nebraska at