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Line by Nicholas Molbert

November 6, 2023

Reading Time: 1 Minutes

I am eight again,

alone with nobody

but my father

and a dinner’s-worth

of trout stiff-

spined in the ice chest.

Beside them are bottles

of Powerade which stain

my mouth red as the hands

of the son he wanted.

We thread hooks

and knot them impossibly

with translucent line. We are

tethered by the barely visible.

We wade, buoyed

on opposite ends of the boat.

There, I break the quiet.

I will learn to apologize.

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Molbert, Nicholas
Originally from Louisiana's Gulf Coast, Nicholas now lives and writes in Cincinnati. He is the author of two chapbooks from Foundlings Press: Goodness Gracious (2019) and the forthcoming Cocodrie Elegy. You can find his work in publications such as Birmingham Poetry Review, The Cincinnati Review, DIAGRAM, Mississippi Review, Missouri Review, Ninth Letter, and Pleiades among others.

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