Jewelry Box

By Lily Steltzer

My mother wore a wool sweater,

the scratchy kind only adults like,

and shook her jewelry box onto the covers.

A pile of shine, this treasure.

to fit an unimaginable stranger around my finger,

dressed maybe in gold

the little maroon cloth to buff tarnish away.

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