Gloria Denise

memory street

once upon a dream

used to smell like hot summers in Greenville, Mississippi

 

music was deeper

Gettin\' in the way by Jill Scott was playing on the speakers

 

the dollar and the dill pickle was cheaper

but life was Now  and Later sweeter

 

family cookouts were all you’d hope they’d be

food stretched beyond what one could see

 

glasses had long trips that would loudly slip the tea

cousin and cousins, we were thick as thieves

what a time to be free

 

a life i once knew on memory street