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Where I'm From by George Ella Lyons

Where I'm From by George Ella Lyons. I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride . I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush. the Dutch elm whose long gone limbs I remember as if they were my own.

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Where I'm From by George Ella Lyons

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  1. Where I'm From by George Ella Lyons I am from clothespins, from Clorox and carbon-tetrachloride . I am from the dirt under the back porch. (Black, glistening it tasted like beets.) I am from the forsythia bush. the Dutch elm whose long gone limbs I remember as if they were my own. I am from fudge and eyeglasses. from Imogene and Alafair. I’m from the know-it-alls and the pass-it-ons, from perk up and pipe down. I’m from He restoreth my soul with a cottonball lamb and ten verses I can say myself. I’m from Artemus and Billie’s Branch, fried corn and strong coffee. From the finger my grandfather lost to the auger the eye my father shut to keep his sight. Under my bed was a dress box spilling old pictures. a sift of lost faces to drift beneath my dreams. I am from those moments snapped before I budded leaf-fall from the family tree.

  2. “Where I’m From”By Mr. Wyatt I am from Colonial Hills Elementary and girls-chase-boys, Saturdays sprawled on straw-yellow carpeting, OSU football and cold pizza.I am from a teacher mom and a doctor dad, pumpkin hunting at Lynd’s Fruit Farm and screaming down Devil’s Hill on a steel runner sled.I am from “goodness gracious alive!”buoyant Dixie expressions on grave Yankee mornings. I am from church sermons wafting through the vents of a VW dealership.I am from corn mazes, bike trails stretched over railways like band-aids. I am from post-post- industrial, the natural science museum, black theater boxes, and wrinkling time in the back of a Florida-bound Corolla.

  3. Where I’m From Quick Write Stanza 1 think about the items found in your home (books, bobby pins, quilt fabric, stacks of newspapers, coupons, ballet shoes, etc.) think about the items found in your yard (swing sets, broken tools, tractors, hoses coiled like green snakes, etc.) think about the items found at your table (foods that recall family gatherings, favorite foods, snack items, comfort foods Stanza 2 think about common sayings (If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times.) Stanza 3 think of names of family members, relatives, friends that link you to the past Think of places that link you to the past (places where you stored your childhood memories, places that represent a particular time of year, etc. )

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