longer still
since my father’s
passing when I was
twenty-nine
his parents came
here from Sweden
a long time ago
we called them
Nanna and Poppa Ernie
many conversations
we never could have
yet he too is with me
still
For Harold A. Borgh (1915 – 1983)
By Ellen Grace Olinger
Poems From Oostburg, Wisconsin
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