Tonight's Poet Corner: Sonnet Solstice #487
The Man Without A Father by Belinda Roddie The man without a father wandered through the countryside with nothing but a bike and a simple backpack filled up with prunes, which he ate at whichever time he liked while progressing in his journey. At dawn, he sang the lullaby his mother hummed when he couldn't sleep. But he didn't yawn: Instead, he wept, and as the cold rain drummed upon the highway, on and on he rode until he found the town his grandmother was from - houses condemned, not meeting code. It was then, at last, that the man saw her, and she sang the lullaby just as well as the one who sent her husband to Hell.
