Brother
by Kirby Wright


A man
Who is my brother
Sleeps on the lanai.

He has become
The age of the father
I remember

From childhood summers
Spent on Moloka'i.
But brother's snores

Are certainly
More ferocious.
He stretches

In his dream
Under a mosquito net
Until his ankles crack.





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