Alan Michael Parker is the author of nine collections of poems, including The Age of Discovery (Tupelo, 2020), and four novels. He is the Houchens Professor of English at Davidson College, and his awards include three Pushcart Prizes, two selections in Best American Poetry, the North Carolina Book Award, the Lunate 500 Prize, and the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America.
It must be so hard to be Miles Davis
and a ghost, and to sit in my kitchen
as I squeal along on a dime-store horn
I was participating fully in Life,
or so my calendar said,
when I had the spiritually extravagant
gift of being heart-struck,
standing before a painting.
1. Dad, Don’t Be That Guy
2. Dad, Quoting the Wikipedia Isn’t Gospel
3. Dad, I’m Going to Take Those Away
4. Dad, I Warned You
I put a poem
in your backup jewelry box,
the one you keep
at the bottom of the taxes from 2003
in order to foil the inevitable burglars,
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