Friday, March 19, 2021

Infinite Family

Infinite Family

I have four grandparents
who each have
four grandparents
my sixteen great-
greatgrandparents
who each have
four grandparents
and behind them
thousands
millions
of grandparents
coming toward me
and passing through me.

-Will Dockery 2020
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2 comments:

  1. George J. DanceMay 2, 2021 at 12:13 PM

    I've been thinking about this poem. It's one of your stronger short pieces. I'd like to add it into the next edition of Selected poems (you, know, when I get the cataloguing information for the colophon). It fits the timeline - you posted the first draft of it in 2019 - and I think it will also fit perfectly, for both size and content, between "Self-Portrait" and "Sixties Home Movie".

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  2. AnonymousApril 4, 2022 at 1:20 PM

    Agree and seconded....!

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