Lucie Frost
Where I’m From #15
By Lucie Frost
Inspired by George Ella Lyon
I am from TV dinners, on my dad’s side.
From Swanson’s Chicken Pot Pie and Morton’s Turkey Dinner.
On my mother’s, from “health food.”
Homemade yogurt, always plain, and pressure-cooked artichokes.
I am from San Antonio summers.
A one-story ranch wrapped around the swimming pool, decorator-styled, full of liquor,
electronics, and stepmothers, noisy with anger.
Mostly, I am from Guadalajara.
A tile-floored, wooden-beamed, two-story, warmed by books, classical music, and calm.
I am from backyard mango trees, bright bougainvilleas…
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