Carol Cone & James Crews

Revisit by Carol Cone & Telling My Father by James Crews 

From Healing the Divide

Karen Whalley

Karen Whalley - Yoga Class

From My Own Name Seems Strange to Me

Kenneth Hart

Old People

From Uh Oh Time

Michael Harty

Uncle Ted

From Statue Game

Elizabeth Onusko

The World's Oldest Person

From The Sun, August 2018

Rita Dove

Parlor

From On the Bus with Rosa Parks

Terri Kirby Erickson

Butter Mints

From Telling Tales of Dusk

Terri Kirby Erickson

Assisted Living

From Telling Tales of Dusk

Linda Pastan

Click to enlarge. From The Last Uncle: Poems.

Maya Angelou

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Jewel

Though I am 8

Though I am 8, my father is 63 years old.
He drinks concoctions of chickweed, garlic, and ordinary
grass
pulled out of the front lawn. He blends it with
a machine that wakes me every morning.
It makes a loud growl. He is worried, I think,
he won’t make it to my high school graduation.

Outside, winter swallows my footsteps
as quickly as they are laid,
which makes me cry.

From A Night Without Armor : Poems

Rae Armantrout

Generation

We know the story.

She turns
back to find her trail
devoured by birds.

The years; the
undergrowth

From American Hybrid

Linda Gregg

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I think this poem is from Alma.

Maude Meehan

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From No Masks.