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405 Reflection Rd.<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n By<\/span>Henry Romain<\/strong>\n \n April 21, 2023<\/span>\n <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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A cluster of aging oak trees orbited
\nthe house. The roof was missing a few shingles
\nand mildew lay damp in the wall. In the light
\nflooding through the tall windows of the wide room
\nI\u2019d play with G. I. Joe figures. Grandmother
\ngave me a box of See\u2019s every December.<\/p>\n

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Snowflakes falling from the sky in December:
\nthey sway in the air like dancers in orbit.
\nAround Christmas, we\u2019d visit my grandmother
\nup at her house in Apple Valley. Jingle
\nBells! I\u2019d spend the night in my father\u2019s old room.
\nThrough his window, crystalline oaks caked in white.<\/p>\n

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Years passed and I saw the dimming of her light.
\nShe\u2019d think it was May when it was December
\nand not know how she had gotten to a room.
\nNewton\u2019s force sustains planets\u2019 solar orbit
\nbut no lure could hold her here. A stray shingle.
\nMy mother explained to me, Your grandmother<\/p>\n

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has dementia, which means that your grandmother\u2019s
\nlosing her memory and can\u2019t think straight. Light
\nfloods through the windows, G.I. long gone. Shinglers
\nstomp around on the roof. Come this September
\nthe walls will be made fully unabsorbent.
\nBy then she had been moved to a lonely room<\/p>\n

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in an assisted living building. The room\u2019s
\nwindows looked out at the fence. My grandmother
\nhad forgotten that we put Man in orbit.
\nShe\u2019d try and guess my name but was rarely right.
\nShe\u2019d ask the nurse, Where am I? (no remembrance
\nof having moved to Des Moines) when her shingles<\/p>\n

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smarted and woke her up at night. Her shingles,
\nscarlet sunspots. Packed into the holy room,
\nthe snowflakes dancing outside. Died December
\n29th. Down the nave aisle rolls grandmother.
\nThrough the colored stained-glass windows, hallowed light.
\nStar Tribune published her obituary.<\/p>\n

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Rain drips down new shingles and off grandmother\u2019s
\nhouse. Toys orbit a newborn bathed in sunlight.
\nSome new family filled its rooms that December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Henry Romain<\/strong> was born in Wyoming and grew up in Des Moines, Iowa. Indulgent in art and philosophy, he is acutely skeptical of modern societal\u00a0norms. His favorite poets are Allen Ginsberg and E. E. Cummings. In his free time, Henry can be found leading trips for the USC Climbing Team, practicing a sun salutation, or sitting cross-legged in meditation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-1915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spring-2023","tag-poetry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n405 Reflection Rd.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/palaver\/spring-2023\/405-reflection-rd\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"405 Reflection Rd. - 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