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Last Day Robert Parham (bio) The blue sea turned upside downAbove us glares with the bald sunDaring our departure. The kingOf the heavens is right, of course;We agree, push through the pallOf preparing to leave, not by choiceBut the hammer of necessity. Low tide writes out the immanenceOf what we will miss, where its white curls,Earlier, pounded as if the shore were meantTo be changed. Tortoises wait for the moon,But we wait for nothing, just a numberOn a piece of paper inside somethingCalled a month. Time is but a concept,A teacher said. I never forgot. VowedTo stop worshiping timeliness,Goodness constructed from duty.Children arrived, carrying my name,So I held them to stop their weeping.I crawled on the floor with them,Let them ride my back, pretendTo whip me like the horse they rodeIn on. We named it Just In Time,That pony. It became their invisibleFriend. They set their tiny tableFor tea. Renamed him Buddy,Talked at length in a languageThat only sounded like ours. [End Page 168] I am a dutymonger now, preciseIn my arrivals, certain to callIf I shall be late. My children talkTo their own now, how Papa readThem The Hobbit, made up sillyLyrics for "Chim Chim Cher-ee,"How they sang along in the back seat,Howled with glee, not asking when we'dGet to wherever there was, or caring. [End Page 169] Robert Parham robert parham's work has appeared in Shenandoah, Northwest Review, and Oxford American. He is retired from the editorship of Southern Poetry Review as well as from his career as a university professor and dean
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最后一天，罗伯特·帕勒姆（bio）蓝色的大海颠倒了。天上的国王当然是正确的；我们同意，推开准备离开的大门，不是选择，而是必不可少的锤子。退潮写出了我们所想念的内在力量，白色的卷发在更早的地方ed打，好像要改变海岸一样。乌龟在等月亮，但我们什么也没等，只是一个数字，放在里面的一张纸上，叫做一个月。一位老师说，时间只是一个概念。我从没忘记过发誓要停止敬拜时效，奉献上帝的义务。孩子们到了，带着我的名字，所以我抱着他们停止哭泣。我和他们一起爬在地板上，让他们骑我的背，假装像骑着马的马鞭打我。我们把它命名为Just Time，那个小马。它成为了他们的隐形朋友。他们摆小桌子喝茶。重命名他为好友，用一种听起来很像我们的语言进行了详尽的交谈。 [完第168页]确切的说，我现在是一名值班人员，如果我迟到了，一定可以打电话给我。我的孩子们现在聊着自己的故事，爸爸是如何读他们的《霍比特人》的，他们为《 Chim Chim Cher-ee》制作了傻瓜歌词，他们如何在后排座位上唱歌，高高兴兴地How叫着，不问我们什么时候到那里去或在乎。 [完第169页]罗伯特·帕罕（Robert Parham）罗伯特·帕罕（robert parham）的作品出现在雪兰多（Shenandoah），西北评论（Northwest Review）和牛津美国人（Oxford American）。他从《南方诗歌评论》的编辑工作以及大学教授和系主任的职业生涯中退休。
Robert Parham. Last Day[J]. Southern Review, 2019,55(1): 168-169