She Is From

Kodey Blankenship

Mr. Stewart

AP English 12

May 9, 2013

• She is from the smell of bacon frying

• And that of coffee brewing on a lazy spring morning

• Walking into grandma’s house to the scent of brown beans cooking

• The smell of fresh cut grass in the summer

• From reading good books while sitting on the porch

• Swinging in the breeze, enjoying the weather

• From talking with her friend Deloris

• To drinking ice cold lemonade

• She is from riding her bike as fast as she could

• Going everywhere but really nowhere

• Sitting under “the big oak tree” at her grandma’s house

• Kenny and Sandra on Skin Fork Rd. Just outside of Pineville is where she’s from

• She is from hours working in the neighbors flower garden

• Doing this for spending money

• She moved into her own apartment at 18

• She is from working with the elderly

• As well as those that can not help themselves

• She is from struggling to let go

• Trying to cope with her kids growing up

• Taking Kacie to soccer practice

• Watching her Saturday morning games

• She is from going to Church services Sunday and Wednesday

• Teaching the preschool age kids on Wednesday nights

• She is from trying to further her education

• From being a daughter with a brother

• To having a boy and a girl of her own.

• This is my mom and this is where she is from