Childhood town Ansonia, Connecticut,
not about facts so much: factories, 18,000 people
Democrats who elected a Republican now.
Childhood stories you don’t realize
will remain: Ida Gordon next door neighbor
she’d yell gezuntheit if one of us sneezed
she was always listening Julia C. Steele
the librarian on the other side of our house
who fell in love late in life
she was probably 40 but it seemed old then.
Bernie Yale across the street. She might
have had the first set of falsies in the entire state.
Never found out if that was actually true
but we all believed that then. What we remember
and what we choose one day to write down.
More please!