reading the poets
of my parents’
generation
their voices
return
Ellen Grace Olinger
SMILE, 2010
They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku; Edited by Robert Epstein (2017, Middle Island Press).

reading the poets
of my parents’
generation
their voices
return
Ellen Grace Olinger
SMILE, 2010
They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku; Edited by Robert Epstein (2017, Middle Island Press).
we hold the door
for older people
memories of Mom
Ellen Grace Olinger
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This poem was published in the book They Gave Us Life: Celebrating Mothers, Fathers & Others in Haiku; Edited by Robert Epstein (2017, Middle Island Press).