Memories Rooted in Pain Are the Strongest
When I found myself looking for something to fill
the hole you left (the physics of filling, sand rolling
back into the holes we made), sorting through what
you left, the tiny Russian box filled with my baby
teeth, each one an envelope, each memory sewn into
the wood and bone, your needle and thread in cushions
shaped like Chinese acrobats, I wonder. Do you know
I went to China after you died? I saw you in the birds
that sifted the sand for seeds, they said it was good luck.
Do you know that I was sick a year after? The foreign
taxi-driver said it was a sign that you were thinking of me.
I choked at his superstition. But always, I return to the hour-
glass shaped pedestal, twisted white wicker, casting
a thicket of shadows on the thinly carpeted floor,
that held the weight of too many flowers at your funeral.
Root
noun
1. a part of the body of a plant that develops, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
2. the embedded or basal portion of a hair, tooth, nail, nerve, etc.
3. the source or origin of a thing: The love of money is the root of all evil.
4. an offshoot or scion.
5. Mathematics: a quantity that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given quantity
6. Grammar.: a morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm
7. roots: the personal relationships, affinity for a locale, habits, and the like, that make a country, region, city, or town one's true home: He lived in Tulsa for a few years, but never established any roots there.
8. Music: the lowest tone of a chord when arranged as a series of thirds; the fundamental.
9. Machinery: (in a screw or other threaded object) the narrow inner surface between threads. Compare crest (def. 18), flank (def. 7).
–verb (used without object)
10. to become fixed or established.
–verb (used with object)
11. to pull, tear, or dig up by the roots (often fol. by up or out); to extirpate; exterminate; remove completely (often fol. by up or out): to root out crime.
1. a part of the body of a plant that develops, anchoring the plant and absorbing nutriment and moisture.
2. the embedded or basal portion of a hair, tooth, nail, nerve, etc.
3. the source or origin of a thing: The love of money is the root of all evil.
4. an offshoot or scion.
5. Mathematics: a quantity that, when multiplied by itself a certain number of times, produces a given quantity
6. Grammar.: a morpheme that underlies an inflectional or derivational paradigm
7. roots: the personal relationships, affinity for a locale, habits, and the like, that make a country, region, city, or town one's true home: He lived in Tulsa for a few years, but never established any roots there.
8. Music: the lowest tone of a chord when arranged as a series of thirds; the fundamental.
9. Machinery: (in a screw or other threaded object) the narrow inner surface between threads. Compare crest (def. 18), flank (def. 7).
–verb (used without object)
10. to become fixed or established.
–verb (used with object)
11. to pull, tear, or dig up by the roots (often fol. by up or out); to extirpate; exterminate; remove completely (often fol. by up or out): to root out crime.
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