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.

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  1. This is so spare and piercing... the guilt and tenderness in those last two lines are devastating.

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