Grandma Lulu the Knitting Queen
...Grandma Lulu loved to knit.
She was the knitting queen.
She has been doing this for ninety years.
Click. Click. Click. Click.Click.
She lived in a house full of yarns.
Baby yarns, skinny yarns...
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Categories:
layette, grandmother,
Form: Free verse
Grandma's Gifts
...When Grandma died, I found some things
Gifts midst tears that sorrow brings
Old doll babies with twinkling eyes
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Categories:
layette, christmas,
Form: Rhyme
Dark Angels of Highgate
...Enough Angelina, drop the bouquet of harebells.
The flowers wilt as your graying hands stiffen. See, how grave
is our newborn son. We gift him a black crêpe layette.
Say Darling Edward,...
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Categories:
layette, death,
Form: Sestina
Nimisha
...In her layette, she looked fair.
‘Nimisha’, the parents called her.
When aged five, the polio plucked
the strings that her legs moved.
As a stringless violin, her legs rest.
In the wheelchair, s...
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Categories:
layette, death, loss, parents,
Form: Free verse