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By Kai Conradi

In a dream my dad fell


      from the top of a steep       white       mountain


            down       into a blue       crevasse
            like the space between       two waves
            where the light       shines through       just enough
            to tell you
            you will miss this life dearly.


              The falling took years.


              I could hear him moving through air       and then finally nothing.
  


In another dream       my dad was an angel


      his see-through body dangling in the air


              floating above me       face shimmery like tinfoil


                     and I cried and cried when he told me


                     I can’t come back to earth now       not ever.


                                                                                 When my dad told me


                                                                                      You will always be my daughter


                                                                                            maybe it was like that.


                                                                         Will I be allowed to come back to earth


                                                                         and be your son?


Source: Poetry (December 2018)

  • Living
  • Relationships
  • Social Commentaries

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Kai Conradi
Kai Conradi is a queer and trans poet and short story writer from Cumberland, British Columbia. He is currently finishing a degree in writing at the University of Victoria. See More By This Poet

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