Zócalo Public SquareGrandmother – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Grandmother https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/10/06/mary-leauna-christensen/chronicles/poetry/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2023/10/06/mary-leauna-christensen/chronicles/poetry/#respond Fri, 06 Oct 2023 07:01:03 +0000 by Mary Leauna Christensen https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=138461 Grandmother/ i want to cause discomfort/ squeeze these angled bones/ between warmth & the side of Your armchair/ tell me i am pinching Your leg/ allow me to stay/ still/ i dream dirtied neutrals/ woven Southwestern armchair/ purchased from the Arizona cousin/ with a house/ as big as a child could imagine/ i dream even the sheet/ draped over the chair/ decades of dogs scratching dinner/ into its cushion/ tell me again/ i am stubborn/ tell me to move/ say i have grown too much/ You replaced the chair/ with another second-hand/ too narrow for our bodies/ only now/ without You here/ can i sit in this chair/ my back pressing stiff upholstery/ like You/ i lift my left leg/ to rest on the coffee table     I have wandered so far afield from you        muscled myself   back into your armchair   curled into your lap     you tell me to move
                I am pinching your …

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]]> Grandmother/ i want to cause discomfort/ squeeze these angled bones/ between warmth & the side of Your armchair/ tell me i am pinching Your leg/ allow me to stay/ still/ i dream dirtied neutrals/ woven Southwestern armchair/ purchased from the Arizona cousin/ with a house/ as big as a child could imagine/ i dream even the sheet/ draped over the chair/ decades of dogs scratching dinner/ into its cushion/ tell me again/ i am stubborn/ tell me to move/ say i have grown too much/ You replaced the chair/ with another second-hand/ too narrow for our bodies/ only now/ without You here/ can i sit in this chair/ my back pressing stiff upholstery/ like You/ i lift my left leg/ to rest on the coffee table

    I have wandered so far afield from you

       muscled myself   back into your armchair   curled into your lap

    you tell me to move
                I am pinching your leg

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