It slides off my tongue
like wet ice, and
my grandfather who
spoke English to my
father and nothing
to me, opens his
heavy immigrant hands
and calls me moja pociecho
which means “my consolation,”
and it is and it isn’t.
I say “Kocham cię, dæiadku,”
as I place white flowers
at his twenty-year-old grave.
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