Packing Up
by Charlotte Savidge
February 1, 2007
On the other side of the country
my parents are loading the Subaru
with wrought iron chairs,
tile end tables,
gray and red cushions
the new owners don't want.
That last morning,
Mother pulls
the ribbed bedspreads
even and smooth.
She won't have to fight them anymore.
I remember the pictures
I didn't take:
The A-frame from the river,
the horse meadow with its leaning barn,
me in my Keds
running down the dirt road
to reach our red door,
Mother's loud "Don't track pitch
onto the carpet."
When I call them, they'll have to remind me,
the road is paved.
About the author:
Charlotte Savidge grew up in the Napa Valley and has lived most of her adult life in Brookyn, New York, where she currently resides. She has taken poetry courses with William Packard, Stanley Plumley, and Natalie Illum, and her work has appeared in "The New York Quarterly." She has written and edited travel guides, institutional communications pieces, and countless grant proposals, and is also a fine art photographer.
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