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
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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