https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc en-us 2016-12-14 15:42:05 UTC 2016-12-21 17:05:54 UTC hello@padlet.com 692gannp https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/143631066 I have guarded my name as people
in other times kept their own clipped hair,
believing the soul could be scattered
if they were careless

I knew my first ancestor.
His legend. I have touched 
his boots and moustache, the grandfather
whose people owned slaves and cotton.
He was restless in Virginia
among the gentleman brothers, until
one peppered, flaming autumn he stole a horse,
rode over the mountains to marry
a leaf-eyed Cherokee.
The theft was forgiven but never
the Indian blood. He lost his family’s name
and invented mine, gave it fruit and seeds.
I never knew the grandmother.
Her photograph has ink-thin braids
and buttoned clothes, and nothing that she was called.

I could shed my name in the middle of life,
the ordinary thing, and it would flee
along with childhood and dead grandmothers
to that Limbo for discontinued maiden names.

But it would grow restless there.
I know this. It would ride over leaf smoke mountains
and steal horses.]]> 2016-12-14 15:46:20 UTC https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/143631066 692gannp https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144073066 In this poem the Author is trying to tell what her ancestors were.  

Connotation: The author uses imagery what her ancestors looked like how she described how her first  ancestor had boots and a moustache and boots]]> 2016-12-16 15:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144073066 692gannp https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144074787 The name naming myself kind of means author is trying to find the ancestors and finding what the name means then.]]> 2016-12-16 15:41:02 UTC https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144074787 692gannp https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144075249 The attitude in this poem is wonder what the ancestors and how the name what they were back then.]]> 2016-12-16 15:42:39 UTC https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144075249 692gannp https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144075969 Author used periods to show new thing they are going to say.
Also some lines have more stanzas than other lines]]> 2016-12-16 15:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144075969 692gannp https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144076743 Trying to find my family name]]> 2016-12-16 15:48:28 UTC https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144076743 692gannp https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144076840 Sometimes you can't know everything.]]> 2016-12-16 15:48:56 UTC https://padlet.com/692gannp/358wgsfvnkbc/wish/144076840