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Showing posts with label grandparents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label grandparents. Show all posts

Sunday, March 24, 2013

trying to write
about my grandparents --
tears come, I know so little

Posted on Facebook's NaHaiWriMo page on 3/24/2013.  Prompt was moisture.
 
Father's parents came 
from Sweden over a century ago --
two cabinet cards, all I have

[The cabinet card was the style of photograph which was universally adopted for photographic portraiture in 1870. It consisted of a thin photograph that was generally mounted on cards measuring 4¼ by 6½ inches. - Wikipedia]