How Can You Lose A Granddaughter? by Jack e Lorts - Rattle: Poetry (original) (raw)

sitting in a virtually empty movie theatre,

my daughter’s being called out to the parking lot

to talk to the police.

How can you lose a granddaughter?

found dead in the morning,

lying in the middle of the street,

apparently of an overdose—fentanyl.

How can you lose a granddaughter?

lost wandering in a land of wonder,

an eleven- and a twelve-year-old

following her around helplessly.

How can you lose a granddaughter.

and she isn’t just a kid, but thirty,

going on a strange journey into outer space,

all alone. When will I see her?

How can you lose a granddaughter?

more lost than I am now as I write

this memorial to how much I’ll miss her.

How can you lose a granddaughter?