Fall 2022 | Occasus | Issue 12

At Night I Sit Silently on the Hammock

at night i sit silently on the hammock

            it is cool and thin air tonight

the Korean grandma

on the television show, twenty minutes ago

    with decoration in her home

         just like mine

             my grandma’s

my Indian grandma

             Well there's the sack of odds and ends

Odds and ends of veggies from the neighbors
           
             And the baskets and the old wood

             and the Persian carpets

             and the ridiculous plastic on the furniture

             and preservation

all the old immigrants have the same decor

  it is clean and bare

             doing its best

And the home is pickled,

             pickled something in the fridge

             and preservation and practicality

and the grandmas are
 
Sweet

              small

                        tired

though mine was also Angry

            and so was my mom

​and so was i

Kiran Gill is a student at Western hoping to become a prof, she sometimes writes ;)