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2022 Traditions Contest: Christmas Eve Afternoon MAG
January 24, 2022
your hand on mine
ladle dipping
narrating a
new york morning on a fire escape
circulating the air
a tongue that does not sing red white and blue
you curl your praise around inflection laced with
brooklyn roots and coney island summers
each manicotti shell
a story
author
me
foreword
you
title
“christmas eve afternoon”
skip an ugly chapter
chapter 15
“two years and one funeral later”
a phantom hand
old bones dissipated
guides mine as i empty memories onto the iron
separate each moment with wax paper and
a brooklyn stained word
38 perfect shells
“Grandpa would be proud”
© Tina L., Carlsbad, CA
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