Keshiki 6: At the Edge of the Wood Evangeline Patterson His second collection

His second collection

Khalid al-Masri

hear and learn”

He hugged me and maintained a silent gaze

as good poems should be

Keshiki 6: At the Edge of the Wood Evangeline Patterson His second collectionWhen his wife returns to her parents house to have their second child, an unnamed narrator and his son are left to manage by themselves. Instead of absence, what the father and son begin to notice is a strange noise opening up between them, reverberating through their home, their television set, and the books they read at night. The wood outside their home hums with it, too: leaves fall from branches which are already naked, trees wriggle when walked