The Family is all There is

tags: The Family is all There is, Pattiann Rogers, poetry, National Poetry Month April is National Poetry Month, and I plan to post one poem per day, every day, this month (If you have a favorite poem that you'd like me to share, feel free to email it to me). Today's poem was suggested by my friend, Professor of Poetry at KSU, Elizabeth Dodd. The Family Is All There Is Think of those old, enduring connections found in all flesh -- the channeling wires and threads, vacuoles, granules, plasma and pods, purple veins, ascending boles and coral sapwood (sugar- and light-filled), those common…