“The Father Becomes a Cloud,” by David Rutschman (Fiction ’02)
2002 fiction alum David Rutschman was recently featured in Defunctmag. Read an excerpt of “The Father Becomes a Cloud” below:
The Father Becomes a Cloud
Slowly, over years, the father becomes a cloud. At first only occasionally, around the edges.
The mother tries to sort out next steps.
The doctor asks him the day of the week, to count backward from 100 by 7’s.
The doctor names three objects: an orange, a pen and something else and later asks him to repeat the three. Dirty trick.
Other doctors, scans.
Read this poem in its entirety here: https://defunct.site/issue/9/authors/42/david_rutschman/134/the_father_becomes_a_cloud
