306th Weekly Poetry Contest winner: Remembering my Father-in-law
by Fabiyas M V
His life spreads over the two continents – the Twentieth and the Twenty-first – on the time map. The capital of his attitude with its cultural virtues is located in the last century. He’s a repairer, bold and burly, who always tries to screw the loose nuts of the new generation. When the teens call an ugly red-lipped batfish, ‘Beautiful!’ he corrects them, pointing at a pearl-spot fish. He preserves the familial juice within his coconut shell. Like a beachcomber, he walks down his memory lane. Undaunted by the abnormal cardiac rhythms, he saunters along the serene way through the heart of nature. He’ll no longer log in a new day. A loss has many reflections. First published by Budding Light Press, Australia