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To Sharon…

HOME TASTES LIKE Ozoni. A Japanese vegetable soup with mochi served up on New Year’s Day.
IF I COULD DO ANYTHING I’D Swim.
PERSONAL MOTTO Be curious.

My 92-Year-Old Father Drives Through The Old Neighborhood

He hates diamond-shaped wire
cutting everything he sees.
What felled trees, memories
of the wife ladling Plum Nutty Jam?
Where’s the fence he and his kids
nailed before they grew
into two-storied houses
they own now? Behind doors, where
are the Beppus, Tanagis? And Marian,
the widow, drawing her shades?

My 92-Year-Old Father Drives Through The Old Neighborhood

He hates diamond-shaped wire
cutting everything he sees.
What felled trees, memories
of the wife ladling Plum Nutty Jam?
Where’s the fence he and his kids
nailed before they grew
into two-storied houses
they own now? Behind doors, where
are the Beppus, Tanagis? And Marian,
the widow, drawing her shades?

Sharon Hashimoto, 60

Tukwila / Seattle

 
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