This article addresses concerns of being and becoming between father and son. The article uses performative and autoethnographic approaches to examine the poetics of memory and family construction. The piece centers on disability, fatherhood, and masculinity. The author produces a narrative engagement with his father that imagines a reflexive approach to the poetics of memory. The text spreads across various memories culminating in a recent journey to Sedona, Arizona. The memories and the journey demonstrate the growing distance between father and son and the process of mending such gaps through the recognition of the self in the other.
