She liked dry martinis
\nand the Episcopal Church.
\nShe would have loved Pope Francis.
\nShe knew Mary Oliver slightly
\nand Bishop Barbara Harris.
\nShe disdained narrow minds,
\nfled from grudging hearts.<\/p>\n
In her young adulthood
\n(the 1950s, mind you),
\nshe’d scandalize the family
\nby breakfasting on beer and pizza.
\nShe went to college,
\ndidn’t marry,
\nstudied mathematics,
\nbecame a professor.<\/p>\n
I miss her shock of silver hair
\n(in her last few months, a wig),
\nher mannish suits, her deadpan wit.
\nThose dinners at Henrietta’s Table,
\nSue and Mom and Ronald and me,
\ncousins solving every problem
\nof church and state
\nover wine and apple brandy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
She liked dry martinis and the Episcopal Church. She would have loved Pope Francis. She knew Mary Oliver slightly and Bishop Barbara Harris. She disdained narrow minds, fled from grudging hearts. In her young adulthood (the 1950s, mind you), she’d scandalize the family by breakfasting on beer and pizza. She went to college, didn’t marry,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"issue":[8],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n