I hear my father
    in a Bach sonata
    the peeling of an orange
    a shuffling newspaper

I hear my father
    in a pounding hammer
    a spinning drill
    a sawblade on wood

I hear my father
    in wooden shoes on gravel
    the clucking chickens
    dirt scraped off a spade

I hear my father
    in the sizzling of oil
    the cobek and ulekan (Indonesian mortar and pestle)
    the skimmer in the wok

I hear my father
    in a scraping chair
    the pen on a school test
    the slurping of coffee

I hear my father
    in the splitting of firewood
    the cracking of fire
    content rubbing hands

I hear my father
    in a plopping wine cork
    a purring cat
    a book being opened

I hear my father
    in the laugh over a joke
    said by another
    or said by himself

Listen.