A few nights ago, Mikyla said she had a dream about mamaw. She said that we went to her house, and that it was a great big place, like a bank... that it had white lines out front, she described columns.. and white on the peak. The doors she said were big, but not all the way to the roof. We knocked, and she said mamaw threw open the doors, and cheerfully called for us to "Come on in!!"
She asked me to take her to mamaw's place at Grays, but it was getting dark so I didn't. She asked again today, so we took her.
No one was home, so I couldn't ask Wayne if she could go in, though she begged me to. Dogs greeted the car snarling and growling so you couldn't have paid me enough to get out anyway.
It was sad up there. The windows are broken out, the porch steps are crumbling, all sorts of junk in the yard, no christmas lights. Just sad. It didn't look like any of the neighbors are competing with decorations up that way either. Nope, mamaw's not there anymore...
She's in a great big mansion with marble pillars and a big double door, just waiting for us to visit again, someday.
Posted by juel at December 11, 2005 12:31 AM