Childhood
In this poem, the poet talks about her childhood. She describes the routine of meeting red miners on the road with dinner buckets in their hands. She also lives in low cotton country where famine, terror, flood and plague were nearby and sentiment and hatred ruled.
Lineage
In this poem, the poet talks about her grandmothers and their strength. Her grandmothers were stronger, they plowed and toiled, they sowed seeds, and grains grew with their touch. Her grandmothers were full of memories. In the end, the poet asks why she is not as her grandmothers were.
