“‘Grandpa’ was written after my grandfather, Felipe Lopez, a Mexican immigrant who learned English, but never aspired to speak it perfectly. I was hoping to pay tribute to him, but the poem wanted to do other things, and after five swift, yet slow moving couplets, the poem ends with a resolve that even surprised me about the whereabouts of my grandfather. This poem, for sure, though brief, has many mysteries.”
—Diana Marie Delgado