White Lung by Kimberly O'Connor

Author:Kimberly O'Connor
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saturnalia Books
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

I imagine she lived in the woods,

the mountains. Although I want

the mountains, they’re not mine.

I didn’t grow up in them, just

under. My great-grandmother

tried to teach me to crochet, but

I wouldn’t learn. She knew a storm

before its thunder by the way

leaves turned in the wind.

I remember that. Once I asked her

about my great-grandfather

who died before I was born.

Whatever she was doing, she stopped —

she was rarely still—I didn’t mean

to marry him, she said. I laughed.

An accident, like missing

a step on the stairs. A bet

with her sister to see who could get a ring first.

Thinking she could break it later,

she accepted a proposal. But her beau arrived

in a borrowed car. She got in.

He didn’t tell her

where they were going

till they got to the preacher’s house.

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