My grandmother’s wringer
washer, stolid on
their porch.  We told her how
washing machines now
made life easier.  No,

she used the wringer washer
until the end.  Decades
of water pressed out
to hang clothes in the back yard
before watching

As The World Turns
on a black-and-white set,
problems of the Hughes
and Stewart families, what
she referred to as
“My story.”

– Kenneth Pobo