Family Time

9-4-11 Sunday

9:30 am

            Abbreviated Morning Pages today due to yet another lousy night of little sleep. But I did manage to write a poem while sitting on the back porch of the farm. Here goes:

Family Time

There’s a hub-bub swirling

And I have to escape.

A mother, sisters and nieces

Can bring me to the edge;

Add the dogs

And I need to escape.

The dogs circle and flow

Following each other in ever-changing maelstroms

Of chaos.

The conversations do the same.

While sister one

Discusses where to buy curtains

With niece three,

Sister two

Describes her trip to the lake

With niece two.

Niece one and a nephew praise the dogs

While Mother sits still in the midst,

A little dazed,

Asking “Green curtains? Did she say green?”

And then, “Did you say you saw a loon?”

She, too, praises the dogs

When the current brings one near.

It’s a curious flow

But a short immersion is all I can take

And then it’s time to escape.

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