i remember we lived in that house

in Fairfield and it was only
for a few years

i remember my grandmothers
came over and had coffee
in the kitchen my mom was
doing their hair

i remember the kitchen and the living
room was like one big room

i remember a birthday and holding
a plastic machine gun and some
kittens in a cardboard box
that i looked at

i remember a wooden rocking chair

i remember Ting a Siamese
cat my first pet
she used to sleep with me

i remember an orange
afghan that my grandmother
knitted with a black
spot where it burned
when i slept in it
under the Christmas tree

i remember the sidewalk
in front of the house and the lawn
there and the street and my
dad's old red Ford