This poem describes the speaker's mother and where she comes from through various memories and experiences from her childhood and adulthood. It mentions smells and places from her grandmother's house, activities like reading books on the porch and riding her bike, and her work with neighbors, the elderly, and in a church. The poem concludes that these varied experiences and roles of daughter, mother, and member of her community are what define where the speaker's mom comes from.

1. She Is From
Kodey Blankenship
Mr. Stewart
AP English 12
May 9, 2013

2. • She is from the smell of bacon frying

3. • And that of coffee brewing on a lazy
spring morning

4. • Walking into grandma’s house to the scent
of brown beans cooking

5. • The smell of fresh cut grass in the summer

6. • From reading good books while sitting on
the porch

7. • Swinging in the breeze, enjoying the weather

8. • From talking with her friend Deloris

9. • To drinking ice cold lemonade

10. • She is from riding her bike as fast as she
could

11. • Going everywhere but really nowhere

12. • Sitting under “the big oak tree” at her
grandma’s house

13. • Kenny and Sandra on Skin Fork Rd. Just
outside of Pineville is where she’s from

14. • She is from hours working in the neighbors
flower garden

15. • Doing this for spending money

16. • She moved into her own apartment at 18

17. • She is from working with the elderly

18. • As well as those that can not help themselves

19. • She is from struggling to let go

20. • Trying to cope with her kids growing up

21. • Taking Kacie to soccer practice

22. • Watching her Saturday morning games

23. • She is from going to Church services
Sunday and Wednesday

24. • Teaching the preschool age kids on
Wednesday nights

25. • She is from trying to further her education

26. • From being a daughter with a brother

27. • To having a boy and a girl of her own.

28. • This is my mom and this is where she is from