lineage by Stacey Cormier

lineage

I imagine pieces of
my grandmother’s life;
moments of the ordinary,
like tragedies
she never revealed

diced potatoes in a pot,
crepe floral in the slant
of afternoon light,
the faint crackle of a radio

(what was her favorite song?)

                      I never knew

of a brother, a silvered image
on bicycle, who died in youth.
and the other; a telegram from war said
lost at sea

this nostalgia for what was
never mine,
recollections un-recalled
seeped in through bloodline

 

Biography

Stacey Cormier took creative writing in university and is an Interior Designer practicing in West Vancouver.  Her grandmother, to whom the poem gives memoir, also wrote poetry and was a strong influence to Stacey while growing up in Winnipeg. Stacey resides in Vancouver.