Poetry: Another Garland Cinquain

Last week for "Poetry Friday" I posted a Garland Cinquain I wrote about my grandmother, Myrtle Van Every.

A cinquain is a five-line syllabic poem. The number of syllables per line follows the pattern - 2,4,6,8,2.

A garland cinquain is a series of six cinquains. The sixth cinquain containing a line from each prior, preferably in order. (The first line from the first cinquain, the second line from the second cinquain, etc.)

Here's a Garland Cinquain for my Second Great Grandfather, Selig Dudelsack/Feinstein.

Selig: A Life Story

Selig
changed his surname
(Dudelsack to Feinstein)
when he moved to St. Louis from
Poland

Selig
and wife Anna
were married in Poland.
(A more precise location is
unknown.)

Early
1890s
with several children
they crossed the Atlantic Ocean
Hopeful.

Selig
spent two decades
raising his family
and through the Chesed Shel Emeth
giving.

Blacksmith,
and junk dealer,
then real estate salesman.
Two infant sons he and Anna
buried.

Selig,
and wife Anna,
with several children
are at the Chesed Shel Emeth
buried.

The Chesed Shel Emeth Society - formed on November 3, 1888 - was a chevra kadisha, or "holy society" for mutual assistance and especially for burial. [source]. They provided free burials for everyone, so that the poor didn't need to 'ask', or prove their need, at such a time.