The Apple Doesn’t Fall Far from the Tree Right above my head, hoof beats, the self I could have been bringing down the crop on lathered haunch, the smell of sweat and dust, the crowd roaring. Father, however, felt otherwise, and father always wins, jowls and gold chain heavy. I am following in his footsteps, being driven, rather, from pillar to post in more ways than one. The driver knows his business and keeps his foot on the gas. I dream of throwing myself out. There’s a certain bridge where my attaché would never break my fall, so high, even father couldn’t save me. Devon Balwit This poem was written as part of the surprise ekphrastic poetry challenge on Magritte. Devon Balwit writes in Portland, OR. She has five chapbooks out or forthcoming: How the Blessed Travel (Maverick Duck Press); Forms Most Marvelous (dancing girl press); In Front of the Elements(Grey Borders Books), Where You Were Going Never Was (Grey Borders Books); and The Bow Must Bear the Brunt (Red Flag Poetry). More of her individual poems can be found here as well as in The Cincinnati Review, The Stillwater Review, Red Earth Review, The Inflectionist; Glass: A Journal of Poetry; Noble Gas Quarterly; Muse A/Journal, and more.
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May 2025
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