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A Month After My Dad Died, I Dream of Him

by Courtney LeBlanc
He looks just like he did in the pictures we thumbed
during his last week­­––trim and impossibly young,
his face unlined and his coal black hair still thick.
We are at a party, standing close and talking. We are
somehow the same age, in that magical way of dreams,
though he is still my father, and I am still his daughter.
When he reaches out to touch me, I wake, the promise
of his embrace sliding off my skin in the cool morning air

Courtney LeBlanc is the author of the full length collections Exquisite Bloody, Beating Heart, and Beautiful & Full of Monsters, chapbooks All in the Family and The Violence Within. She is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Riot in Your Throat, an independent poetry press. She loves nail polish, tattoos, and a soy latte each morning. Read her publications on her blog: www.wordperv.com. Follow her on Twitter @wordperv and on Instagram @wordperv79.