#icecapades
My Gramma and My Pop-Pop’s
First date was The Ice Capades.
I have the booklets to prove it from the
Very date—1950—she would have been fifteen.
She was fifteen, and in-love;
Married at nineteen.
He took her to Frank Sennes’ Moulin Rouge;
Theater Restaurant. These booklets—
These booklets smell like her perfume;
Chanel #5. I wonder who she had shown
These booklets to; I wonder how
I came to inherit these booklets;
Or I wonder how these booklets were out,
Or there, for me as a keepsake…? These booklets—
These booklets—Oh—how my history is tangled up in
These booklets—Oh—these booklets. I only see one date on
One-of-the-four of these booklets. She did say that,
Her and My Pop-Pop, “We had kept up with it”,
Because My Gramma, and My Pop-Pop had loved the
First date so much.
“I knew then”, she’d say,
About being fifteen, and in-love.
©2025Ellen Finn
Nov 21, 2025
Nov 21, 2025 at 4:41 PM UTC