Matt W. Miller is the author of four poetry collections: Tender the River (2021), Club Icarus, selected as the 2012 Vassar Miller Poetry Prize winner; Cameo Diner; and The Wounded for the Water. A recipient of a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, among other honors, he teaches English and coaches football at Phillips Exeter Academy in coastal New Hampshire.

Oh Father, Your Fear

by Matt W. Miller

Draped to his waist in other milk he came
to civilize and not to conquer he is forever

covenant with best intentions and swore
on Friday he would not get angry but Sunday


was a long car ride home with all the tears
People on couch
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