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- By Janaka Stucky
- Published 11/14/2006
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At funerals I see dark centipedes
crawling in corners.
Holidays bring suicides and
the centipedes rush indoors.
They terrify me so I try to
count their legs, calculating
their distance from my family tree.
When my father asks what this poem
means, I’ll say it means I’m sorry.
Copyright © Janaka Stucky, 2006. All Rights Reserved.
crawling in corners.
Holidays bring suicides and
the centipedes rush indoors.
They terrify me so I try to
count their legs, calculating
their distance from my family tree.
When my father asks what this poem
means, I’ll say it means I’m sorry.
Copyright © Janaka Stucky, 2006. All Rights Reserved.
Janaka Stucky
Janaka Stucky currently lives in Boston, where he spends his life traveling, writing, and caring for the dead. His poems have been published in a variety of journals including North American Review, Frogpond, Elixir and VOLT. In 2004, Janaka founded Black Ocean, a publishing and production company based out Boston, New York and Chicago. He likes his whiskey neat and his music dirty.
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