“Home Video,” read by Morgan Carlock Clark.
Home Video
by Morgan Carlock Clark
While rewinding a VCR tape
to watch from the beginning,
I see my sixth birthday party:
my friends walking backwards
from our huddle under my treehouse,
the candy in our hands
and on the ground flying towards
a Barbie piñata,
my blindfold taken off, the stick
in my hands passed to my friend.
At the corner of the treehouse,
I slide up the slide
where my grandpa meets me
at the top, embracing me
in a hug. I pause the video here
and decide not to watch it
as it really happened, but to enjoy
this moment when he does not let me go.
About the Poet
Morgan Carlock Clark has been published in Heart of Flesh, Southeast Missouri State University Press, Canvas Lit, and Sundog Lit. Morgan received an MFA from Seattle Pacific University, and currently teaches creative writing online at Louisiana Christian University.
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