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Learning from Grandparents
SWEET MEMORIES
SWEET MEMORIES
My mother’s mother
lost a leg in the sugar wars
We dragged our butts across town to see her
she dragged hers across the house to serve us
You would think that each visit
might have served as a caution
But, as young minds
may twist and stay twisted
I took away instead
an infinite ability to ignore the obvious
and a taste for milk and ginger cookies
REKINDLED
REKINDLED
Babies
bright smiles
that warmed and seared your heart
Long banked
in photo album embers
One
grandchild’s grin
and you’re ablaze again
LEARNING FROM GRANDPARENTS
LEARNING FROM GRANDPARENTS
From my Swiss grandfather
who dreamed and grew a prairie Eden
combining Europe and High Brazil
I learned the impossible is possible
From my English grandmother
I learned that niceness is very nice
but you can leave feeling empty
except for cookies and milk
From my father’s mother
and my mother’s father
I learned that early death
is a form of theft