If You Ever Find Yourself in the Country
(After Aja Monet)
Chloe Hollis | 2025
Get off at Alamo Street. you will discover a whole lot of nothing,
and the silence will make your eyes do the hearing. the grass is an almost brown color from the Texas heat. more importantly, head to the house right across from the longest standing church in Brenham, Chappell Hill, Allwise Missionary Baptist Church. this is 855 Allwise Road where an old woman, called my great grandmother, spent most days on the front porch. if you visited when I was a little girl, you’d see me and my brothers swinging on the big green swing under the giant magnolia tree, agitated by the heat and the bugs. she’d sit there with a Pepsi in hand, just watching us play. her arms skinny and wrinkled like the shirt that had been stuffed at the bottom of a drawer for months
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