Donald Morrill Tampa (Rick Campbell)
Blue Star Home The blue star displayed in a house window means knock on this door if you’re chased by a bully or shadowed from school by a stranger in a car; someone will answer, will know what to do; the world as you’ve felt it will remain so; you’re welcome, don’t forget. But we do forget even as we pound furiously for help, or stroll past, imitating, on a plastic recorder, a mourning dove. Or living too deep in the back rooms, out for the day, we don’t hear. What was that? When we answer and discover that child in the frightened eyes of a colleague, or our reflection, we may bid it enter. Before closing the door behind it, we peer out for the threat, for veracity (we’ve been tricked before, we showing the star). And there’s our street. There’s a maple leaf, fallen, wide as a breastplate. "Blue Star Home” was first published in Morrill's first collection At The Bottom of the Sky, which is now out of print. |
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