What kind of person is Nye's Grandmother?

I think that Grandmother thinks about death a lot. In both poems, the lines “It is possible we will not meet again on earth” (My Grandmother in the Stars) and “We will all die” (The Words Under the Words), are both about all people die. Grandmother is also lonely because her son has moved to America. She is looking for him to come home “She waits by the oven watching a strange car circle the streets. Maybe it holds her son, lost to America” (Words). She is very happy when she gets some mail from her son, but I don’t know if she can read the letters because of the part that says  “When one comes, she announces it, a miracle, listening to it read again and again” (Words). The part “She knows the spaces we travel through, the messages we cannot send—our voices are short and would get lost on the journey” (Words), makes her sound like she understands things about her family without them having to tell her.

Nye thinks about her grandmother a lot because she is very close to her and she still lives in the place where her father is from.