Aaron

Karen rhymes with Aaron 

your namesake 

Your grandfather who died years before your birth

a photo shows him standing in front of his paint store

the immigrant from Lithuania

Leibovitz they called him

until they didn’t 

he started a new business sporting his new name 

the Levine Leather Company that

passed on to your Uncle Sam

and to which you made many visits

until you didn’t 

because nothing remained of it but the 

round handled shoemaker knives that your mother used to cut vegetables in her kitchen 

©Karen Casady 2021