Female Line

Carol’s indisputably an Old Gal

rhymer — she favors a capella

to make her feelings sound.

The grandmothers she’s found

are Lucretia, Alice, Gabriella,

Charlotte, Mary, Lillian, Esther, & Carol.

Add a Helen & one more, Nancy.

The sisters of Gabriella were called

Augusta, Florida, Georgia, & Eliza —

Helen liked names ending with “a”

& must have map crawled

to pen the invites for that Maypole party

leading up to 7-year-old Tova.

Women from Brunswick & Boston,

New York City & Blue Hill, Maine.

Esther a nurse, Gabriella read Braille,

Charlotte became a Yale librarian.

As yet, the young one’s still terra nova.