Sixteen Inches on Center

SIXTEEN INCHES ON CENTER

Father viewed through a grown son's eyes.

By Anthony Buccino

Seeing a father through a grown son's eyes. The son of a World War II veteran looks at the 20-plus years they had together, the missteps the missed opportunities, and the things that remain.

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WHAT PA DIDN’T SAY

WHAT PA DIDN’T SAY

Dad was never much of a talker a few words here and there

a short story in an economy of words about the adventures of one of his homers
Dad was never much of a writer 

He never left a note to say he was running out for breakfast
or would be back in a little while so it was a great surprise for all
when some of his Guadalcanal letters appeared more than twenty years
after he passed away we met my father as a young man we never knew

His long forgotten letters to his buddy back home showed a man who misses his family and the long years he was overseas as censors cut out little holes the Japs would never see

He wrote of something he saw but will never forget and never said what it was
but it was what silenced him for all those years we knew him.

- By Anthony Buccino
from SIXTEEN INCHES ON CENTER
Copyright © 2010 by Anthony Buccino, all rights reserved.

A Poem A Day - Anthony Buccino

The verse posted in this blog are from the collections listed below and other uncollected or published here for the first time. 

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Verse Collections

CANNED - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed

SIXTEEN INCHES ON CENTER

AMERICAN BOY: PUSHING SIXTY

RETRIEVING LABRADOR DAYS 

VOICES ON THE BUS train, subway, sidewalk and in my head

ONE MORNING IN JERSEY CITY

Buccino's Verse Has Appeared In:

Paterson Literary Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets,  Rattlesnake Review,  Medusa's Kitchen, Voices In Italian Americana,  Edison Literary Review,  Journal of New Jersey Poets, CHEST, The Idiom, Fox Chase Review, Up & Under,  Caduceus,  South Mountain Poets Anthology, MEWS, LIPS, More Sweet Lemons, The Poem Factory, On The Quiet Side, PowWow Review, and other places, too! 
 
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