She Spelled History Out In the Stories She Told

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I was eight or nine

She was in her Eighties

A sweet lady

Needing someone

To tell her tales

Too,

Tales of long ago

And I was an excited

Listener.

She spelled hopes

Dreams and heartbreaks

In after school visits,

And Sunday Morning Masses.

She was a friend

Of the family

And as a little

Girl

I knew the

Importance

Of living history,

Listening to long ago

Tales that

Left me wide eyed

So listening

To Miss Alice

Was a gift,

A gift

I know now

Went both

Ways.