the Colt .32 had belonged
to my grandfather who died of a heart attack in Marathon, Florida in 1965

  When I was in high school
 my dad showed
me where he kept it and where the bullets were
  right next to the bag of pot he grew
    between the corn stalks
      in the garden
the pot not the gun
 I kept adding oregano to the pot
   as I pinched it
     - he didn't smoke it
   but I ended up smoking oregano