Publisher: Deep South, South Africa
I want to give my son a door,
to hang across his
far room, something to open
to close.
Something to start.
a dark door
a light door, a
door painted red.
It doesn’t matter,
a door, with hinges
open, close
keep lightly shut
slam. open
again
that
kind of door.
A man loves a woman who lives on one continent and is a devoted father to his two sons who live on another – a situation that finds him sometimes in unbearable anguish. That kind of door describes his life/lives, in a lyrical sequence of taut musicality and precise sparse.
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About the author
Since the early 1990s Alan Finlay’s poems have been published in journals and anthologies in South Africa and abroad. He founded and edited two important literary magazines, Bleksem and donga (co-edited with Paul Wessels), and has been an editor of the poetry journal New Coin. He lives between Johannesburg and Pergamino, Argentina and works as a writer, researcher, editor and university teacher in the field of communications freedoms and rights. That Kind of Door is his fifth collection of poems.
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