THERE'S a yellow grocery bag in the branch
of my grandmother’s tree, hanging above the ash that was once her home. She’s
not there to see it. As soon as she’d felt fire, she sped west with a watermelon
strapped to her passenger seat. She let the flames eat it all: the photos and
the sheet music, the kitsch and the nude watercolor of Grandpa that she’d pinned
in the doorway.
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