Patio Furniture
There were folding chairs there, I remember, on
the patio of our mobile home in Thatcher, Arizona;
and a folding table, too, made of aluminum and
a little portable barbecue grill with legs that
also folded; and in the springtime, I remember,
when it was warm outside but not too hot, not yet
summer we as a family would sit out there on our
patio in our folding chairs next to our folding
table grilling hotdogs on our folding barbecue
grill and in retrospect now it often seems as
though we were a folding family - like our patio
furniture - ready at any moment to be packed up
together and moved on to someplace else.
Mark Christopher Eades
San Francisco, 1999
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