I’d read, a long time ago, that certain things become more important as you age. These included art, as in visiting museums, and family heritage, as in genealogy. I must have read it and dismissed it, so I can’t cite the source, but I later discovered it to be true.
An older cousin researching the family had led her to the old family Bible in my possession. The call became an extended conversation about old family stories, including one about the great-grandmother who allegedly killed a man and got away with it, and the great-grandfather who had reportedly walk home from Virginia at the end of the Civil War (I wrote a novel about that story).
Poet Sarah Carey has taken a related but different approach. She’s written an arresting poetry collection, entitled Bloodstream, about family, heritage, and stories about odd relatives (if you’re from the South, as Carey and I both are, every family has odd relatives. In fact, in the South, odd and relatives may be redundant. She even writes about family pets.
To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.
Some Tuesday Readings
Novel idea – poem by Sonja Benskin Mesher.
Elvis Costello Brought Poetry to Life – Peter Richmond at The Free Press.
“I Am a Little World Made Cunningly,” poem by John Donne – Sally Thomas at Poems Ancient and Modern.
Tether – poem by Alison Luterman at Every Day Poems.
Shirt Poems – Luci Shaw at Rabbit Room Poetry.
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