Category: Poetry

• Relative(ity)

  Grandfather, grandmother – children of the Depression I am theirs, as much as they are mine; Teachers demanding fealty to the life of learning, A loyalty I eagerly, willingly gave. They bought my books, remembering old struggles – Their own poverty in payment for the life of learning The payment of energy to bring them…

  Matthew R. Francis

  April 2, 2014

  I Was an English Minor, Poetry

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