In Mom's Kitchen, After Her Funeral

I found everything ready to goto help me serve this meal in her honor

wooden bowls, baskets for breadcutting boards for cheeseplatters for deli meatscork screw, wine glasseshors d'oeuvre pickscandles, matches, floral napkinscoffee mugs, cookie plateseven a new box of sugar cubes.

But I went on lookingfeeling like a little girlintent on seeing everythingand finding her flour sifteralone, in a film of white dust on a paper plateand remembering how she'd let me turnthe black-handled crankuntil she'd look offand say All gone –