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“Tree in winter” by Sarah Horrigan \/ Creative Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December dragged its slow funeral into the father\u2019s<\/p>\n

blue-blur hands. Car swerved past wind-torn highways,<\/p>\n

through the family\u2019s tunnels of hearts. The grandfather<\/p>\n

pressed his head against car\u2019s window. Anesthesia, early doses.<\/p>\n

Splintered radio static. Billboards of safe sex with condoms<\/p>\n

and toxic relationship breakdown. The grandfather kept<\/p>\n

breathing. Around them, treetops all worn bare with<\/p>\n

winter\u2019s new grief-coat. Fake-leather seats stank of all\u2013boys,<\/p>\n

over-rented apartments. This family was real despite everything<\/p>\n

else. The mother clenched the son\u2019s palms, his eyes towards<\/p>\n

the paper sky where geese were writing letters. In the rearview<\/p>\n

mirror, the father looked at the grandfather slouching in<\/p>\n

the backseat. His unworded eyes, something like the shade of<\/p>\n

the son\u2019s imagined first snow. Its too-soon act of melting.<\/p>\n

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Contributor Bio<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Duy Quang Mai<\/strong> is from Hanoi, Vietnam and is currently studying in Sydney, Australia. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming from The American Poetry Review<\/em>, Overland<\/em>, The Lifted Brow<\/em>, Cordite<\/em> and others. He is the author of the chapbook Journals to<\/em> (Story Factory, 2019).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

December dragged its slow funeral into the father\u2019s<\/p>\n

blue-blur hands. Car swerved past wind-torn highways,<\/p>\n

through the family\u2019s tunnels of hearts. The grandfather<\/p>\n

pressed his head against car\u2019s window. Anesthesia, early doses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":44104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,575],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nDecembered ~ a poem by Duy Quang Mai - DVAN<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dvan.org\/2020\/12\/decembered-a-poem-by-duy-quang-mai\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Decembered ~ a poem by Duy Quang Mai - DVAN\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"December dragged its slow funeral into the father\u2019s blue-blur hands. 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