Article Z: Letter to Dad | a double abecedarian
Zebulon Huset
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Article Z:
beware the easy.
Chest ≈ thorax.
Defend the (breast) plate like Harmon Kilibrew.
Eventually Pavlov
finds his own saliva for a tiramisu—
ghost flickers each whisper of dessert.
Harmon, batting lefty, nervous.
I (innocently) disregarded your
jovial spirit kindness (even your) high IQ.
Keep them as proof pop.
Let them wrench nothing from our grasp—No!
Make them buckle as the change up’s thrown.
No—don’t leave your cumulus rostrum.
Orate and listen. Disprove hell.
Perceptions are best by bulk.
Question the bishop and the raj.
Repeatedly. How soft are cumuli?
Serrated teeth of disease vanish
there, where all linearity is going
under like any sense of
verde in San Diego. The sun’s burned sienna all foliage.
Well rattle these facts, Dad.
X marks the spot. The words. The rhythm. The music.
Yell. Make me the vessel. Throw heat, no lob.
Zeb. Remember me? Visit again with that sweet cryptomnesia.
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Zebulon Huset is a public high school teacher, writer, and photographer. He won the Gulf Stream 2020 Summer Poetry Contest, and his writing has appeared in Best New Poets, Meridian, Smartish Pace, The Southern Review, Fence and others. He edits the prompt-based Sparked Literary Magazine, back from hiatus this winter.
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Posted in Kaleidoscopes, Sep '25 and tagged in #boudin, #poetry, Poetry