Amberlin Dupre, Origin
Amberlin Dupre, Origin
$345.00
Photography, 16” x 16”, Framed
Inheritance
By Kortney Sebben
A spinning wheel
sits on red linoleum.
Atop it rests a slab of
polished wood. Grandma jabs
at bread dough,
beats the flour into it.
Diamonds glitter her fingers--
one would never presume
these are working hands.
I was born watching as she
measured and worked
memories into metallic pans.
Somehow, I’ve allowed
Mother to miscalculate these
memories…
“Complicated,” she says.
But could it be memory is
reborn within us –
less sugar here, more there?
Which granules of Grandma’s
reside in my bones? Because
I would love to think
I exist within a
metallic pan, the perfect
combination of
chemistries.