OUR ISABEL
We named her Isabel Damaris
For genial Grandma Belle Morgan
And one of the Mayflower daughters
Because she arrived on Thanksgiving,
But Izzy was never called Belle.
She played the French horn and soccer,
Built furniture, threw Raku pots,
Brought up a son with wife Beth,
Computed systems analyses,
And took to the woods in a tent.
She went on to home-groom pets
And cheer-lead her aging mother,
Who gives thanks every year
For Izzy’s affection and zest.
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