WENDY BARKER

SAINT JULIAN PRESS POET

BELOW THE SALT

 

 

Granny's place before she married. A governess, helping the parlour maid polish silver before the house parties. At one of them, she met Grandfather. Sometimes the mistress let her join the grown-ups for supper, though mostly Granny nibbled buttered toast and a coddled egg upstairs with the children. Later, wife of the Chairman of the Board, she shrank from fancy dinners. From beaded, sequined dresses, from perfume and cleavage. Sent my adolescent mother instead. Grandfather escorted her on his arm, his stunning daughter, wrapped in silver fox and satin, her chocolate brown eyes, creamy skin—almost white as the salt.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"Below the Salt" first appeared in Matter Press. 

Wendy Barker © 2019

 

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