A Father's Chin

an erasure of a passage from Robert Fagles' translation of Homer's Odyssey

by WILL MATHESON
    
     myself              behind          --



                                               taller,
                                                          jawline firmed

                     m                              y
                                                                   son



                               a
                             new man
                                                                                         --
                                                         
                                 
                               gold



                                                         dies
             a         father




                               always




                    ache      s