Cohost Andrew Huff's grandmother passed away in May at 97. His haiku at the June show were a remembrance of her.
My grandmother died
having lived in two countries:
Italy and here.
She immigrated
at 8, speaking no English,
to near Taylor Street.
No one in her class
would speak to her -- none except
a little black boy.
She left Taylor Street
and then Austin, in white flight,
for "safe" Mount Prospect.
In Arizona,
widowed, Fox News her comfort,
she never forgot.
Racism, fear, hate
melted away when she thought
of that kind black boy.
