Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Haibun

BIG SISTER 

She teases and torments me; plays with me and protects; chases me away and calls me back.

We share a room, toys and clothes, sickness and secrets.  We fight, yell and scream, scratch and pinch.  I bite her once.  The taste of brown soap still remembered.  When she’s away at camp I’m lonely.

She explains important matters.  The “curse,“ an aunt’s growing stomach, how boys are different from girls, why a neighbor divorced her husband.

sticky night
whispering
after lights out

Bottle Rockets, August 2008

2 comments:

Mary Lou Watkins said...

Many, many thanks, We both have wonderful childhood memories.
I love you

Adelaide said...

Happy Birthday, Big Sis.

Adelaide