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KIRBY WRIGHT Son of Crab I am a sick man lying on a twin bed listening to rain. I have learned cold showers in a solar house inhabited by crabs. Father crab sits in a wheelchair clicking his remote. Mother crab devours mahimahi out of a doggie bag. I have the maid's room. The maid left years ago. The crabs go to bed at midnight, him in his hospital bed with a view of the red ti garden, her in the king they once shared. They would claw one another when the salmon curtains were drawn. Now they scuttle through the house searching for water, entertainment, dead things to eat. Outside, rain floods the street. My skin hardens as I write
--- ABOUT KIRBY WRIGHT ---
Kirby has been nominated for two Pushcart Prizes and is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. BEFORE the CITY, Kirby's first book of poetry, has just been published by Lemon Shark Press
REPAIR: Concourse or confluence of people at or in a place - Oxford English Dictionary
