Previously Unknown Forms of Fathers

The father who shakes his head to produce the wind.

The father whose touch turns one’s arm into gold.

The father whose teeth can be reassembled into aircraft, computers, or small, fashionable handguns.

The father who slices off his own feet for the benediction.

The father whose eyes contain one hundred small packets of heroin.

The father who carves his name on the scalps of his children.

The father who cannot leave his chair, under pain of death.

The father who returns as a precious metal, melted down and free.