Jacob Sunderlin, a finalist in Narrative’s Twelfth Annual Poetry Contest, is a writer and musician and the author of poetry collection The We in the Back of the House (Saturnalia, 2022). Educated at public schools, he teaches at one in Indiana.

Best Practices for Speaking to the Father

by Jacob Sunderlin

First you have to weld one
from copper tee joints
& stab its finger into your chest.

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