My grandmothers come to me
Like a distant memory
A fragment
An imagined timeline
Of babies, and meals
Of gardens and grime
My grandmothers
Who had just a smidge
Of time for me
while I was on their timeline
Always cleaning, scheming
Scattered, burdened & plaid
Passionate, poetic & sad
My grandmothers walk before me
Daring their best
Even when times were worse
Asylum’d sisters, dead son
Paralyzed firstborn,
and overly pious ones
Porch sitting grandma
Vespers grandma
Grandma with a wig
& grandma with a typewriter.
Time to pass. Porches to sit.
Places to travel. Histories writ.
Social justice grandma
Earth shaker, ice skater, lap maker
Jello, hostess grandma
Food maker, bug sucker, garden raker
Irritated grandmas
Barely known grandmas
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