Grandmother

October 2019

Grandmother

Gets up and shuffles

to the window every morning. 

Pulls the shade up and looks out.

On usual days she will see

one 

lone 

dove sitting on the telephone wire. 

Grandmother says, 

There were once two, this dove has lost her love. 

Sometimes there really are two or three doves, but she only ever sees one. 

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On unusual days she will see a flamingo.

Slowly walking long gangly strides

across the driveway. 

Grandmother fetches her camera only to see the error message "memory exhausted"

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The heron will fly away before anyone else is around to witness her morning flamingo.

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