The Distant Journey
The morning they took my father away, I watched his hands all the way down the lane. They were not his hands, then. They had been his hands once — the hands that filed brass, that set a wheel true, that gutted a clock as clean as a fish and put it back with a breath in its mouth. But that morning they were tied. He walked between two constables, and I walked behind him. My mother held my...
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