Anti-Heirloom
-Ken Seide
December 23, 2010
My daughter rejected her life
in the guise of cleaning her room.
She left a trash bag
for me to haul away,
which held her library card,
her JCC pass,
a card deck called “Ask Your Father,”
and diamond earrings
that had disappointed her mother,
who had wanted an engagement ring
on her birthday decades ago
and who later walked away
from her disappointments,
including me,
and so disdained these earrings
that she gave them
to a 13-year-old
to disregard and discard.
I put the earrings in a drawer,
this anti-heirloom.
Perhaps my granddaughter will like them,
or continue the tradition.
Ken Seide (a pen name) lives in Newton, Mass. His poems and short stories have appeared in and on New Vilna Review, Midstream, Poetica, Scribblers on the Roof, and Ibbetson Street.
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