I Seek The Praise of Ordinary Women: Stories & Poetry Vol. 2
COMING SOONBy Robert M. Katzman
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“If my tough Polish grandmother offered you milk and cookies, you better eat them!”
Celia was a sort of mystery; a 4-four-foot-11-inch beautiful woman from Poland who worked her way across Germany during World War I, speaking Yiddish-German while working in beer halls on her way to Hamburg. There, her brother (in Whiting, Indiana) had a ticket to America waiting for her. Her past was horrifying and filled with death. While she made it to her brother’s store and quickly married his top salesman from Minsk, Byelorussia – she was stone inside. To her children and grandchildren, she was a force. But one with her heart missing. I began writing poetry about a year after my mother started ‘parking’ me, after school, at my grandparent’s house. My exposure to them for so long gave me a far more European connection, and maybe identity, than my sister or any of the other five grandchildren.
