sacramento 1849

And when he was panning

he’d of­ten think of times on the trail, 

back when they were a whole family, 

in­clud­ing lit­tle Moe, 

who could get sick at the slight­est breeze. 

 

And Maw,

and her abil­i­ty to cook just about any­thing that once crawled about, 

they’d joke that some­day she might even cook lit­tle Moe. 

And they’d laugh and laugh, 

and poke lit­tle Moe with a roast­ing fork.

 

I think of them often, 

as i wan­der out to the chuck roast on Jay Street, 

spoon some but­tery pota­to mash,

grab an ex­tra slab of flank off the flat iron, 

read ‘The Dai­ly Bee.’

 

But they’re all gone now, 

it’s just me an that trick­ling river, 

its on­go­ing promise of those nuggets of ’49.

 

Maw done took every­thing in that durn divorce.

 

—steve mehal­lo

Flom­mist Steve Mehal­lo is a graph­ic de­sign­er, il­lus­tra­tor, font de­sign­er, ed­u­ca­tor, food­ie and gad­fly. He is the cre­ator and founder of FLOMM! Pho­to­graph by Sacra­men­tan Jay Truesdale.

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