Lauren Hilger & Dionissios Kollias
The invention
I play a game —
I ask my father, write the first word you think of,
and he writes my name.
We need a level to surpass,
the hurt of loss to subside — if it does.
The face imprinted on my needle threader,
comfortable isolated monolith.
Silver.
Contentious.
This man and my father carry firewood, crating silence for me.