your mirror
your book
your glasses
my memories

my love

on the calendar for july
the names of nineteen loved ones
birth days or anniversaries

there are more

my name

is on the list

your name is on the list

you the grandmother who helped make me who i am
you a woman trilling while stirring vanilla sauce
in a kitchen with english ivy growing up
along the windowsill
looking out to white birch trees
a winter long and cold

xo