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2020 Handley Award Winner
Baylie Raddon


Upon Your Father’s Denouement
by Baylie Raddon

You can’t be so nonchalant,
The action is over, embrace the imminence
Upon your father’s denouement.

If not me, find another confidant,
Untie all lingering childhood resentments;
You can’t be so nonchalant.

This week, your sister made you an aunt,
More frayed family, enduring last amendments
Upon your father’s denouement.

And when all anything ever does is taunt
Your already loose faith in contentment,
You can’t be so nonchalant.

As he resolves, admit that the thing you most want
Is an aisle-walker, grandfather for your descendants
Upon your father’s denouement.

You will have to choose a picture, a eulogy font,
Fasten yourself to final morphine-slurred sentiments.
You can’t be so nonchalant
Upon your father’s denouement.

Upon Your Father’s Denouement was originally published in PCCInscape Magazine Vol 74 No. 1 Print issue.

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Author's Bio

Baylie is a third-year student at Pasadena City College where she tutors in the writing center and takes more English classes than she needs to transfer. She plans on getting a PhD in either English Literature or Linguistics, that is, if she can stand being on this side of academia for 6+ more years. She participated in National Novel Writing Month and published The Flipside when she was thirteen. She loves few things more than the scene in The Stranger where the old man is crying for his dog in the hallway and Meursault thinks of Maman. (placeholder)
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  • Folio No.8 Fall 2022 Love Letters
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • PRINT Chapbook No.6 Healing Arts
    • Online Issue No.9
    • Online Issue No.1 Fall 2016
    • Online Issue No.2 Spring 2017
    • ONLINE Issue No.3 Fall 2017
    • PRINT Vol 72 No 2 Fall 2017
    • PRINT Vol 73 No.1 Fall 2018
    • ONLINE Issue No. 4 Fall 2018
    • Online Issue No.5 Summer 2018
    • FOLIO No.1 Fall 2018 VOTE
    • ONLINE Issue No.6 Fall 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • FOLIO 2 Fall 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
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    • FOLIO No.3 -- Moon Moon Spring 2019
    • FOLIO No.4 Celebrating New PCC Writers
    • FOLIO No.5 City of Redemption
    • FOLIO No.6 Spring 2020
    • FOLIO No. 7 - Winter 2021 Into the Forest
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • 2022 Handley Awards
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