Aunt Rose

Aunt Rose
by Jim Culleny
via 3QuarksDaily

… the last
20 yrs
of her life
after her
mother
died
she sat
at that
kitchen
table
hating
the irish

drinking
scotch
mist

&
clipping
obits

loneliness
spread out
in front
of her

like
family
jewels

&
now
years
later
i remember
i had no
kindness
for her