Sideways nose
My grandma had a sideways nose.
I’ve got a sideways nose, too.
My grandma was often difficult.
I think she was very unhappy.
I am often difficult and unhappy.
My grandma was an old-school
Catholic who never went to church.
I once wanted to be a priest, but now
I don’t go to church either.
My grandma didn’t like Chinese food.
There I’m afraid we have to disagree.
My grandma stood by the people
she loved, no matter what.
When I decided, after 30 years,
to find my father, my grandma
was my strongest supporter.
(I suspect she had something
to do with his disappearance.)
Near the end of her life,
my grandma lost just enough
of her memory to become much nicer.
Visiting her in those days was a joy.
All the love she’d always shown,
with none of the darkness
to weigh it down.
My grandma had a sideways nose.
I’ve got a sideways nose, too.
9 January 2013
Auburn AL
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My grandma, Dorothy Marie Coughlin Flanders, would have been 98 today. I miss her. A lot.
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