American Childhood Elegy

PoetryIssue 35
Written by Dan Murphy

Once I slept in a hamper of my parents’ clothes

it’s true it started as a game of hide and seek

I was six I think and chose mom and dad’s hamper

it smelled like yard work and cigarettes and PE

clothes

Dan Murphy

Dan Murphy’s chapbook, Seasick Serenade was published with Bottlecap Press in 2024. His chapbook, The Book of False Rhyme, was published with Finishing Line Press in 2013. He has been published in Field, Beloit Poetry Journal, Spillway, Zyzzyva, Image, Los Angeles Review, Cortland Review, North American Review, and other journals.

Murphy received a Master’s degree in English at California State University Northridge and lives with his family in Los Angeles.

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