REALITY?: Memories

Things that make me miss my mother: A friend pointing out the cleverness of putting an elastic band over the two handles of a pot to keep the lid on in transit; sewing curtains; the recipe for churst; the strudel she made once that she rolled to such thinness that it hung over the table edges; the way she laughed at my ballerina dance and my Polish rendition of my 8th grade graduation song; her perfectly pointed fingernails; someone calling me “Zuzia.”