Sleeping in the Old Bed Where My Grandfather and His Fathers before Him Were BornAuthor(s): Gracia GrindalSource: College English, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Oct., 1973), p. 53Published by: National Council of Teachers of EnglishStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/375198 .
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Poems
SLEEPING IN THE OLD BED
WHERE MY GRANDFATHER AND
HIS FATHERS BEFORE HIM WERE BORN
I lie down in the flowers of an old tapestry and put my face to the old designs and sleep myself back into seed
the family patterns hold me
awake, I trace the lineage back again to my face and hands and see the family lines flower on my skin
I lie in a heraldry of grace and simple kin
GRACIA GRINDAL
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