Nana’s Photos (poem)

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Nana's Photos


Sifting through archeological 
layers of photographs -
at first encountering younger versions 
of myself and siblings, going backwards 
until I find a picture of Nana and Grandad 
looking like Bonnie and Clyde

I never knew that side of her, I never
knew Grandad.
all I remember is him
sitting by the dining room table,
but was it real?
I learned of his death through
osmosis - one day I knew 
he was gone, though I was never told

But here they are together still
in their twenties, looking at the camera
with a future ahead of them
as we all do.

Joanne Fisher

This was written with the prompt about an old photograph provided by the Carrot Ranch July 1 Flash Fiction Challenge.

The prompt reminded me of the time my siblings and I went through our grandmother’s photos that were all in a large pile in a hall cupboard and we found that photograph. There were also ones of Nana dressed as a flapper. She looked as though she was quite stylish then, not the grandmother I had known.

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