POETRY 2024: Where I'm from by Sheila Smith Evans
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Where I'm from
by Sheila Smith Evans
I’m from a Southern backyard —
Magnolia grandiflora sporting huge white blooms
Honeysuckles spilling over the fence
Red roses soaked with the aroma of tea
Hollyhocks springing up yearly into flowering towers
Mud pies made beneath a magnificent pin oak tree
Mint leaves mysteriously exploding with flavor
Milk pods being tasted unknowing they were poisonous.
I’m from a Southern backyard —
Bedroom window we escaped to crawl space door
To meet our coonhound and to play in the moonlight.
Bedroom window we each escaped separately
Out into moonlit streets until return by kind policemen.
I’m from a Southern backyard —
Concrete foundation swirls scarily like a gorilla’s face
Wooden swing where we watched mad Mommy fleeing
Crawl space hound’s howls after Daddy’s death.
I’m from a Southern backyard —
From which Mommy returned to hospital after funeral
From which we left with barely known Northern kinfolk
To which others came to live in the bounty of its beauty.
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