in a shoebox somewhere in the closet
are the little paper houses
my glamorous great-aunt
gave my grandma for Christmas
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every old thing
she walks softly
over the rug the grandmothers
wove knot by silken knot
a life incredible, vivid, excellent.
in a shoebox somewhere in the closet
are the little paper houses
my glamorous great-aunt
gave my grandma for Christmas
she walks softly
over the rug the grandmothers
wove knot by silken knot