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Poetry, Grades 7 – 9: First Place
Great Bubbie — Netanya Sadoff
While older cousins and distant uncles
Fondly reminisce
I can only remember fragments about her
Like tiny pieces of a mirror that smashed when I was still young
They litter my mind, these small moments and things
They flicker in and out, like fireflies on a humid Minnesota evening:
Peach tea and dried cranberries
A hunched-over walker with tennis ball feet
Floral antique furniture with plastic sheeting
An antiquated TV with bunny ears
My Bubbie fondly calling her “mom,” confusing my young mentality
Stern adults, yelling “don’t touch the glass things!”
A photograph framed in her living room of my Bubbie as a child
A tiny kitchen with apricot walls and wicker baskets
And then
Absence
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