Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, AT GRANDFATHER'S, by JOHN FRENCH WILSON


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AT GRANDFATHER'S, by                    
First Line: My son, upon this curving stair
Last Line: Where bears have lurked and lovers kissed.
Subject(s): Grandparents; Love; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers


My son, upon this curving stair
Whose balusters are slim and white,
Your mother scurried from the bear
That sometimes follows you at night.
And later, (though you do not care,)
She kissed me here by candle light.

So shake the spindles with your hand
And pound them with your chubby fist.
But I would have you understand,
You, with your eyes of amethyst,
That this is an enchanted land
Where bears have lurked and lovers kissed.





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