Day 24

 

The ice cream store

I went to as a little girl

with my grandmother

closed

My grandmother always got Bing Cherry

I got rainbow sherbet

They sell the brand in the grocery store nowadays

but I doubt they even make Bing cherry anymore

and I never see rainbow sherbet

I think of my grandmother

and things that disappear

when you aren't looking.

Day 23

 

Remembering things

that are no longer there

I close my eyes

try to smell it

taste it 

touch it

to be in that place for that moment

back in that long forgotten time

in  the bubbles of my memories

that burst

and leave me 

emptier than I was before