Making Way for Other Toys

Poems take license to transcend those kinds of endearing moments, to use our language in ways that our prose is not well suited. How do you write about your experiences such that you feel your grandfather standing next to you, or you see yourself playing Kick-the-Can in the front yard again? A poem might do that. They are fragments and flashes of a larger history we are trying to put together, still, as the motorcade of life passes by.