To A Grandfather Not Met

Dear Bill

Reading memoirs of your daughter my mother

Stories of how you broke a boxcar of broncs
and sent them on trained and tame

How at every school event 
you would be the emcee

Would’ve loved being 
there with you
and you living long enough 
to be here with me

Hanging on the rail 
while I ducked hooves 
in the horse corral
and in the audience 
of a poetry reading 
joining in with the applause

Author’s grandfather with Baby (Uncle Bruce) on Silver. Author’s mother standing alongside – circa 1926

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