At Age 76

[Lake]

At Age 76

Beijing Tokyo Minneapolis /St Paul.

She tunnels through currents and clouds,
transported to this imagined land with
all she can utter - hello, yes, no, I’m sorry...

We both know what this trip means,
we do know, but we don’t say it.

We spend our best time at Cub Foods;
she holds me back at a pedestrian crossing
as the driver waves your right-of-way.

She smiles to kids in shopping carts,
smiles when a puppy barks around,
smiles at the neighbor’s friendly greetings

and nervously replies:
sorry, wǒ bù dǒng yīng yǔ .
(I don’t know English)

You’ve seen how someone deftly moves
the beads on an abacus up and down.
Such is the way her mind works at numbers,

converting from $ to ¥ or vice versa
so easily. I give her more maths to do and
wonder if I will be able to do the same.
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the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins

[SLIU]

描写很真实，生动。 欣赏。。

[非马]

A lovely poem, indeed.
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[白水]

How lovely grandma

[Lake]

Thank you Sliu, Mr Fei Ma and Moonlight for the lovely comments.

Lake
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the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins

[博弈]

good.
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（在不斷的審醜裡終將建立起新的審美）

[Lake]

Thanks Mark. You know what, this "good" one received -0.9 from Poetry Assessor

Another one of mine which I don't think highly of, not mentioning its name, received 7.8

http://www.poetryassessor.com/poetry/
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the trouble with poetry is that it encourages the writing of more poetry -- Billy Collins

[博弈]