Produced by Dennis Camire
This week’s poem is by Susann Pelletier of Lewiston.
For my Grandmother, Marie-Anne Maillet
By Susann Pelletier
Memere,
If you were alive
This morning
I would bring you
(In your cool kitchen)
A bowl
Of red raspberries.
You would put down
Your book and say,
“Qu’elles sont belles!”
(“How beautiful they are!”)
Hold the brimming bowl
In your two hands
Like a face you love,
Lift it to your nose,
Your mouth.
If you were alive
This morning
I might tell you how your joy
Awaiting me
Cleared each brambly cane
In my way.
Dennis Camire can be reached at dcamire@cmcc.edu
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