Common Grace by Aaron Caycedo-Kimura

Author:Aaron Caycedo-Kimura [Caycedo-Kimura, Aaron]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2022-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

see-through gloves. Eventually,

my tongue faded to pink, and she

let her hair go white under a wig

when it started falling out from chemo.

But back at the Emporium salon

in Coddingtown Mall—women

flipping through magazines

under space helmet dryers—Mom

is alive, I am eight years old,

and licorice dangles from my mouth.

Solidarity

Chewing the chicken her taste buds

forget, Mom answers the landline

kept on the kitchen table, lowers

the buzz of evening news.

Aunt Mimi, two minutes younger,

two thousand miles east, calls

for the second time today.

Kiki, moshi-moshi!

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