You are now you have been you are now seventeen
When I was seventeen I had the
Year before met my father
Whom I had known before but I had been
Kidnapped for thirteen years and thousands
Of miles away in nowhere he would think to look for me
But I know where you are and we
Know where we are I send you texts and you send
To Nicholas From My Absence
Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae is the author of the poetry collections The Many Hundreds of the Scent and Cain Named the Animal: Poems as well as a memoir, Pulling the Chariot of the Sun. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University.