visiting great grandma’s house

mail shoved in the china cabinet drawer

spiraled phone extension cord

slender staircase partial rug on wooden floorboard

clawfoot tub peeling back decades of usage

suddenly modernized

kumquat orange painted frontdoor

fannie’s thorn bushes are missing

covered by mats of grass tended to weekly

cluttered kitchen remodeled

into opaque backsplashes of endearing brightness

yet it lost it’s old self

all it took was signing off the lined in silver contract

and months of moving out accumulated values

although the structure holds the memories

we couldn’t take the house

but we took the stained glass window centered with a hybrid tea rose

her favorite