symptoms of distance

Maybe it is a symptom of being away from things, places, people that I grew up,

I do not strongly want to get back to those lives already lived,

But today I remembered a place,

An old house, in slight disrepair, childhood home of a prime minister,

Our family – parents, siblings, mother’s brother, and our police people – standing at stone steps to take a group photo,

Grape 🍇 plantation with green grapes,

A lunch lavishly cooked up and eaten without much thought,

But mostly that photo and grape fields.

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