This week’s Tuesday’s Poem is: Dad Aubade by Terese Svoboda.
Bryan Walpert, the editor for Tuesday Poem this week, writes:
. . . Svoboda engages playfully with the tradition of the aubade, a dawn poem that typically centres on the parting of lovers. Worry, she writes, is a kind of aubade, one that refuses to do its work. It seems an appropriate title for the poem, given the emphasis here on love, worries about (final) parting (which despite the speaker’s fears may also not come to pass anytime soon), and, towards the end, distance.
Sneakily, the poem seems less about worry than about the father-daughter relationship that worry brings to the fore. . .
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