Defrosting the Freezer
One container of spaghetti sauce
Grandma made before she died.
Two old pieces of wedding cake
you couldn’t pay me to eat.
Three snowballs from last winter
slightly deformed, no longer fluffy.
Four small flounder from the time
Grandpa took me deep-sea fishing.
Everything coated with a thick
white layer of sadness.
Copyright Credit: Ralph Fletcher, "Defrosting the Freezer" from Moving Day. Copyright © 2006 by Ralph Fletcher. Reprinted by permission of Boyds Mills & Kane, a division of Astra Publishing House.
Source: Moving Day (Boyds Mills Press, 2006)