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Brooklyn/Luzon 1945
by Alan Wexler

on Dumont Ave
my mother swooned
to Basie as
she rocked me
to sleep.

what song
did my father hum
on that Philippine highway
the day
a mortar shell
carried him
to eternity?




First published in Voices of Brooklyn: An Anthology. Chicago, American Library Association, 1973.