Clara at Point Reyes, 1895

[vaneramos]

Today's challenge for NaPoWriMo was to write a persona poem, one written in the voice of someone else. I decided to use the fictional voice of my great great grandmother, Clara (Armstrong) Ford (1862-1944). This photograph shows her posing in front of a painting she painted, and which I have in my possession. In the 1890s her husband, a plumber,

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[stephe]

Very nice. I love poems with ancestral voices, no matter whether constructed or reproduced.

[vaneramos]

Thanks, stephe. Here's me reciting a poem a few years ago about my great grandmother, whom I knew and whom married the beachcombing boy in the poem above: Patchwork.

[stephe]

Thank you for the link. I think it may be the first time I've heard your voice. A very warm and loving poem.