Plastic Speak
by Kevin McLellan
Your son heard your fluffy pink slippers hiss cold
linoleum
and as you neared he pretended to sleep: a closeness
kept
for himself. The nervous language you spoke made
him uneasy.
For years, he waits for this to change. For years, he
remains
distant. One December morning he finds a strand of
your hair
caught in his sweater.
________________________
Kevin McLellan is an MFA graduate of Vermont College, instructor
of poetry workshops at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and
42opus assistant poetry editor. He has recent or forthcoming poems in
journals including Barrow Street, BLOOM, Eucalyptus, Konundrum
Engine Literary Review, three candles, and others. McLellan lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Your son heard your fluffy pink slippers hiss cold
linoleum
and as you neared he pretended to sleep: a closeness
kept
for himself. The nervous language you spoke made
him uneasy.
For years, he waits for this to change. For years, he
remains
distant. One December morning he finds a strand of
your hair
caught in his sweater.
________________________
Kevin McLellan is an MFA graduate of Vermont College, instructor
of poetry workshops at the Cambridge Center for Adult Education, and
42opus assistant poetry editor. He has recent or forthcoming poems in
journals including Barrow Street, BLOOM, Eucalyptus, Konundrum
Engine Literary Review, three candles, and others. McLellan lives in
Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Apple Valley Review:
A Journal of Contemporary
Literature
ISSN 1931-3888
Volume 2, Number 2
(Fall 2007)
Copyright © 2007
by Leah Browning, Editor.
All future rights to material
published in the Apple
Valley Review are retained
by the individual authors
and artists.
www.applevalleyreview.com
A Journal of Contemporary
Literature
ISSN 1931-3888
Volume 2, Number 2
(Fall 2007)
Copyright © 2007
by Leah Browning, Editor.
All future rights to material
published in the Apple
Valley Review are retained
by the individual authors
and artists.
www.applevalleyreview.com
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