Summer 2016: Poetry
Isabel’s Purse
by Deborah Akers
vinyl stiff, glossy red dangling from tangled hands bought to meet her merchant marine husband at the Oakland pier three battling kids back in the car she scowls at the strain of waiting, heart sharp and fierce a beacon aimed toward the docked ship his shape on the deck errant American, he strides forward, presses a handful of foreign coins sell these you’ll make the mortgage, easy cleaning after her death we unearth the purse stowed deep in closet’s night it holds the scorned coins two rosaries her union card the deed to the house and three keyless padlocks
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