Poetry Spotlight | “Grown” by Theresa MacDonald
Theresa is a poet who grew up in a large family and began writing late at night at the kitchen counter, when the house was quiet and the demands of daily life momentarily receded. Pushing aside piles of unfolded laundry, she wrote poems shaped by care, necessity, and attention. Her work favors lyric restraint and emotional clarity and explores memory, time, and the enduring ties between past and present.
Grown
Life from yesterday
flashed before me.
Two grown men—
yesterday, a couple of boys.
Teasing each other, testing,
laughing as the old game returns,
from before, when days were spent
barefoot, jumping wildly on the trampoline,
the lazy sunshine lingering until
all at once—dinner time, and drifting reverie.
At sunset’s farewell, they say goodbye
for today, stepping back into grownup lives,
bearing witness—those who still hold your
heartstrings, tethered to a time long ago.
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