My Father Was a
Quality Control Engineer
1.
1.
My father was a
quality control engineer
he searched for flaws, even at home
my brother and I met his eagle eye, dark brow,
beaked nose, but sometimes we evaded
What I studied in college
was how to make meaning, to make meaning
to make, to make
out of material given
Home or Homer, human or numen.
To mean, to mean.
he searched for flaws, even at home
my brother and I met his eagle eye, dark brow,
beaked nose, but sometimes we evaded
What I studied in college
was how to make meaning, to make meaning
to make, to make
out of material given
Home or Homer, human or numen.
To mean, to mean.
Continue on.
Make meaning, search for flaws.
Make meaning, search for flaws.
Until the flaws are what remain
of meaning made.
My father was a quality control engineer,
together we raised a superstructure
made of meaningful flaws.
Make meaning, search for flaws.
Make meaning, search for flaws.
Until the flaws are what remain
of meaning made.
My father was a quality control engineer,
together we raised a superstructure
made of meaningful flaws.
2.
After he left us
he turned to the golden eagle
that led my Subaru down the road
and in that dream
from behind a mask, he told me
you, you are eagles
haltingly, as if to say
you don’t need to worry
What I studied then
made no sense to him
What I sensed
made no sense either
Continue on.
Human not numen.
Until the flaws are remade,
are what remake us.
