Nov. 2010 Tanka Challenge Catch-ups
Written on each day, but had no access to this journal:
11-26
The women's shelter
needed food. I had canned goods.
Dragged forty pounds there.
"What? You only take hot food?"
Do my shoulders ever hurt!
11-27
My husband's cousins
invited me to dinner,
but three hours away.
Memory and bounty were
the best medicine today.
11-28
Oh, the things I learned
about your mother's folks, love.
What sweet irony:
Your mother was DAR;
you'll rest with your grandparents!
P.S. Regarding Friday's tanka: I ended up dropping the canned goods off at the first soup kitchen I found, four long and heavy blocks away. My shoulders and upper arms still hurt. As for yesterday's: According to his cousin Malita, Brian's maternal grandparents (the Roberts) are at Woodlawn. I will have to research this to confirm.
P.P.S. Its the Youngs branch of the family, among the great-grandparents, that have the DAR connection. Some rest in Greenwood in Brooklyn, some at Woodlawn in the Bronx.