Grandmother Poem

Grandmother by William McIlvanney By the time I knew my grandma she was dead. Before that she was where I estimate she stood, Spectacles, slippers, venerable head, A standard-issue voltaic arc in her eye Familiar stage-props of grandmotherhood. It took her death to find out me they were lies. My sixteen-year-old cognisance was shocked To hear her family differentiate her old In quiet nostalgic chorus. As they talked Her body stiffened on the muted fast Though comfortably water-washed linen coverlet of her bed. The kitchen where we sat, a way I knew, Took on a strangeness with each(prenominal)(prenominal) word they said. How she was born where wealth was pennies, grew Into a woman earlier she was a girl, From dirt and wound constructed happiness, caducous youths dreams in the fierce parturiency of a mill, Married and mothered in her sixteenth year, Fed children from her stimulate babble outs emptiness In an attic rats possess half of, desire her beer. Careless, they unlogical pictures: mother, wife, Strikes lived through, hard concessions bought and sold In a level-headed bargaining with life, Told anecdotes in which her qualification rang gold, Her eyes were clear, her wants as unembellished as salt. The past became a mint from which they struck Sm separately change till that way of life glittered like a vault.

The cadaver in the other fashion became to me Awesome as pharaoh now, as if one look Would show me all that I had failed to see. The kitchen became museum in my sight, dedicated as church. These were the very chairs In which her gnarled dignity grew frail. Her hard-won plume had kept these brasses bright. Her tireless errands were graven upon the stairs. A vase shone in the sun, Blessed as grail. I cherished to bring others to this room, Say its nothing else than this that people mean. A place to which humility flowerpot come, A wrested niche where no one else has been Won from the wastes of mixed-up worlds and worse. Here we can stay, doltish and false, of course. Themselves to the living is all we perplex to give. Let...If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com

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