Grandma and her weak leg,<\/p>\n
your sister at 18, still with one good iris,<\/p>\n
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your mother\u2019s British jewelry hidden under the bed,<\/p>\n
the places in the carpet you soiled with urine,<\/p>\n
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all the red dust,<\/p>\n
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your seat at Calvary Methodist Church next to Marie<\/p>\n
who\u2019d always chat with you when someone talked<\/p>\n
about Jesus and his power to bring you all the things you needed,<\/p>\n
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your gymnastic booty shorts (your mother sent<\/p>\n
them from America because the heat in Accra overwhelmed<\/p>\n
you but you still wish you\u2019d saved some for America\u2019s winters),<\/p>\n
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warm Tea Bread sold at the YMCA between 6:30 am and 7:30 am,<\/p>\n
the scent of air conditioning and ice cream at the SHELL gas station,<\/p>\n
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Grandma with her good English,<\/p>\n
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Mercedes and Pamela, your neighbors who borrowed everything from salt to ladles,<\/p>\n
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Asaana, Yooyi, Aluguntuguin, Nkontomire,<\/p>\n
Living Bitters, Mercy Cream, Lion\u2019s Ointment &<\/p>\n
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a Saturday listening to wind turn on pawpaw leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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