Roots
Grandma at the lake cabin
showing me
how to haul water for the fruit tree
my little job for the summer
I still feel guilty I don’t recall
if i watered it at all
And was that the last time I saw her?
Prompt: write a poem that recounts a memory of a beloved relative, and something they did that echoes through your thoughts today.
Bitter sweet. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteThis is so spare and piercing... the guilt and tenderness in those last two lines are devastating.
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