“Granny” by Pauletta Hansel

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.               for Etta Mullins Lewis

Of course, you were born
old when I was born,
your hair impossibly long,
down past your hips—the widest
part of you (the hips I carry now
from your time into mine)— Indian
hair, the family called it,
straight streaked with grey,
let loose only at night
and spread across the cane back
of your chair, brushed till sparks
flashed in the dim-lit room
and braided, coiled again
for sleep. I don’t remember
a time not knowing you
and I am a stranger still
in this memory house—
the smell of wood smoke, lard, faint
sulphur from the well, tobacco
juice in the spit jar, a room
lit by a single bulb hung bare
from the wallpapered ceiling,
everything sharp-edged, hard
as the planes of your face, even
the chair by the window
where by day there was light enough
to read the books I’d always bring;
only in the bed where I lay
with you at night,
alone in the morning
could I burrow
soft into the easy land
of sleep. Sometimes now
a place—a breath of
coffee too long on the burner,
crow of rooster as I wake
in an unfamiliar room—
will bring you near
as your name
I carry with my own.

-Pauletta Hansel

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