Maxine Lipner
Where I Am From #21
By Maxine Lipner
Inspired by George Ella Lyon
I am from sharing black and white cookies with my older sister at the neighborhood
bakery, where the woman behind the counter knew my mother from way back when
From beads of lemon pledge on wood grain, hard-earned from a printer turned copy
editor’s wages and from the used, slightly dented, silver blue Chrysler that took us on
motel road trips
I am from the new Mitchell-lama coop built atop an immovable rock, pushed there by
the Ice Age
Tall, blond brick, with two curved wind-swept ramps, that at winter’s peak, with head
down…
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