Red Flag Poetry, February Postcard

February 2022

Eva (Three Dollars and Fifty Cents)

Some weekdays my mom would give me three dollars and fifty cents.

“solo para comida” she would say.

So I did as she said and bought food 

and then with my extra 30 cents got candy at the corner store.

2 sour powers, and two swedish fish.

Some weekends the smell of my mom’s crepes and empanadillas would wake me 

“hice una especial - solo para ti” she said pointing to the oven

the fresh smell of bread escaping through the cracks.

3 tuna empanadillas, a few pieces of tortilla and a crepe con nocilla

specially made - just for me.

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