Clamshells
Food Lion, it’s where I shop, pick up what I need.
Make a list but it is not organized
like Mom’s: produce, frozen, milk.
She would push the cart up and down the aisles.
Too tired to make lunch, she would pass the deli,
pick up a turkey sandwich she and Dad would split.
Stopping at the bakery
cookies in clamshell containers
two for five dollars
chocolate chip
oatmeal raisin
She placed them in the cart–
their treat for the week.
No cookies in my cart
when I leave the store.
South 85 Journal
2017
