A Snapshot Of Joan Buchanan Comments

Grandparents are a wonderful institution! You can have a relationship with them which doesn't have the vexed tension of that with parents, and you'll still be rooted in the family. Your poem expresses these positives with wonderful and detailed memories, some yours, some inherited, all illustrating the fulfillment you feel. I was swept along by the positive energy you display, this poem speaks to me, it has personal resonance. But it also works just as a poem, speaking as a long-time reader of poetry, this fulfills certain literary standards eg. there is an emotional restraint which lets me feel within, you don't take all the oxygen as the author. You do not rely on cliches or generalities. There are enough incidents and specific example to make a short narrative out of your poem. So both as an evocation of a beloved grandparent and as a poem this writing is wonderful.