My grandma’s made me potato soup to get my mind off this boy who’s dumped me.
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My grandma’s made me potato soup to get my mind off this boy who’s dumped me.
I watch you paint a childhood picture for your grandchildren, different from the one I remember.
Already I miss the three-year-old cyclone blasting from room to room, a jaunty ponytail streaming behind her.
I comb through her closet, a history of her body and life before dementia and heart failure.
In the picture, photographed in Burma, my grandmother is seated on the traditional teak chair in the veranda and my grandfather stands behind her in the shadows thrown by a padauk tree …