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The Kream & Kone

By Donna Weaver

 

My mother introduced me to scallops:

fried, broiled, breaded,

wrapped in bacon. I learned to walk

like her on Cape Cod, all the way to the tip,

 

Provincetown, Wellfleet. Where men held hands

and my mother stuffed Ben & Jerry t-shirts

in her purse. She put beach trinkets on the table

 

around our lunch. She emptied hermit crab shells,

dehydrated starfish next to cardboard buckets of fried

clams with bellies. They were fresh if and only if

my mother could taste sand mixed with tartar sauce.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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