Family Reunion
Julie Buffaloe-Yoder
There’s a first grade boy
in a Superman t-shirt.
Freckles, brown cowlick,
two front teeth missing.
Broken arm, black eyes.
.
There’s a father, thirty five,
blue suit and tie, new shoes,
pretty shaved face, saying
all the right things in
Anger Management class.
.
There’s a mother
too scared
to say a word.
.
There’s a social worker
who says it’s her job
to reunite the boy
with his father’s fist.
.
.
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