Granddaughter's First Apartment

by The Hearth Voice

Original EveryPoem Studio house-voice poem.

The apartment is one room and three brave windows. She owns two plates, a plant, a chair from the street. I want to bring everything. She asks for my old blue bowl. So I carry one useful history up four flights of stairs and leave space for the life she will choose.
52 words · 10 lines · Free Verse
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