Grandmother Has
Found a Niche for Me
c. Cory Jaeger-Kenat, 2001
30x22 (inches)
Pastel on Paper
framed
sold
at Yellowstone Art Museum
Billings, MT
collection of S. Fong
"When I think of you, it is always canning season,
Time to rip out the garden by the roots,
Toil with grim joy on a plot
Where squash and zucchini strangle. . .
You chop up my heart
With beefsteak tomatoes, say soothingly
How there is a place for
Defectives
like me,
Scrape the pieces in a jar
There--
That will keep me from
Corrupting little boys."
from "Grandmother II" by Cory Jaeger-Kenat
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