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  1. my grandfather
  2. wears his wife on his jeans.
  3. her cockeyed stitches, loose and
  4. thick gold against the patchwork mess
  5. he wears on his legs, keep him warm
  6. while the morning draft claws at
  7. his ankles in the early spring.
  8. i wear long-johns i
  9. bought from Target and they
  10. sag and catch on the
  11. weeds i can't keep out.
  12.  
  13. my grandfather's grass
  14. is green and splays
  15. out up into the low sky
  16. like fresh wake on the beach,
  17. less like blades, more like
  18. the springy green sea a
  19. near-blind child has always known.
  20.  
  21. my grandfather
  22. always asks me to hold the rope
  23. by which he drops his seeds,
  24. sure to grow up stronger than
  25. any i plant at home. i
  26. think he goes back once i leave
  27. so he can fix my
  28. unhandy work because
  29. damn those rows are straight.
  30.  
  31. my grandfather
  32. gives his basket of
  33. tomatoes and cucumbers and
  34. carrots brown with the thick soil
  35. of a good yard to his wife who
  36. puts them in a stew that only he and she
  37. will eat, but i can't cook the
  38. broken, yellow, sickly dahlias
  39. back behind my house.
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