In My Eighties. Poems by Jonathan Bracker, selected by Ron Mohring as Number Three in Volume Eleven of our Summer Kitchen Chapbook Series.

Release date:  September 3, 2023 [49 copies]
25 pages
$12.00

Cover: vintage end papers. 

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Jonathan Bracker was born in 1936  and has been writing poems since junior high school. He is the author of ten previous chapbooks, including Constellations of Clover (Prickly Pear Press, 1973), Duplicate Keys (Thorp Springs Press, 1977), Paris Sketches (Thorp Springs Press, 2005), Civilian Aboard U.S. Navy Ship at Sea (Seven Kitchens Press, 2011), This Day (WordTech Press, 2015), and Attending Junior High (Seven Kitchens Press, 2020). In 2022 he published two volumes of selected poems. A retired college English teacher, he has lived in San Francisco since 1973.

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A Kind of Family Reunion

Lately, almost every day, I have found myself
for several moments back in one of the rooms I grew up in
with my immediate family there, looking quite alive,
occupied with tasks or recreations:
petting the dog, or changing the newspaper
at the bottom of the canary’s cage.

My visits are not long enough to allow them
to leave the rooms they occupy. Silently
they do what I watch them do.
They cannot see me or each other.
I feel sure they would not hear me if I spoke.

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