Grandma

Imagists wrote poetry which valued clarity of expression through the use of precise visual images. The idea was that a series of concrete images would represent something more visceral than some Victorian description of love, or death or whatever. An example:

                                                 The Red Wheelbarrow
                                                 by William Carlos Williams

                                                 so much depends
                                                 upon 

                                                 a red wheel
                                                 barrow 

                                                 glazed with rain
                                                 water 

                                                 beside the white
                                                 chickens. 

While I have no idea what these images meant to Williams, my memories of wheelbarrows and white chickens carry with them specific feelings with differing emotional values.

This last week we visited my Grandma Heinz's house in Harbor Springs, Michigan, where my family often vacationed around the 4th of July. 

Everything in the house reminds me of something.

Especially the smell of the garage

and the creepy clown lightswitch in the bedroom that has the secret door in the closet.