ticket to ride
ticket to ride
by Sara Marie Nason
nanny’s body, collapsed
carnival balloon from the county fair
that grampy ran
shrunken, pulled plastic, pliable
her tremors: excitement, once
after eights wrappers
spilled everywhere
(“I could eat a whole tin”)
nanny paints the rock in the garden
a grave
grampy goes under
nanny deflates
no phone in the nursing home &
no chocolate at all
