Stacy Mendell
Where I’m From #12
By Stacy Mendell
Inspired by George Ella Lyon
I am from the purple banana seat bike,
from slip-on Keds and double knit dresses,
from Piggly Wiggly and S&H Green Stamps.
I am from the 3rd house down on Redbud Drive,
the one with two pine trees shading the drive way,
(Collected as saplings, tended in coffee cans,
eternally scented with Folgers).
I am from the plump stand of Pampas grass in the back corner of the yard,
soft, fluffy fronds we slipped behind for Hide and Seek,
potted petunias and pansies on the back porch
and families of snails and rolly-polys that hid…
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