Tumbleweed

Coulehan, Jack

Primary Category: Literature / Poetry

Genre: Poetry

Annotated by:
Donley, Carol
  • Date of entry: Jan-04-1995
  • Last revised: Oct-06-2015

Summary

Father reappears 28 years after deserting the family and living like a "tumbleweed"--playing bit parts in movies and drifting around alone. The son finds him strapped into a chair, drooling into a cup, dying of a lung disease. His father tells him, "A loner’s like a tumbleweed; / he breaks off, blows away, dries up."

Primary Source

First Photographs of Heaven

Publisher

Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

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Nightshade

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

Place Published

Troy, Maine

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1994

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