Heron Clan January 29, 2023 Grandkid po

For the granddaughter

For Maggie

Have my tears dried?

her sweet face presented to me.

Feeling her sorrow

still, knitted brow, eyes tragic,

she looked to me to say

they were gone.

She was feeling the

injustice of a four-year-old's pride

in the little heave of a sigh,

Have my tears dried?


For Caitlyn

Painting toilet paint on the walls,

She wreaks havoc in the halls,

A basting brush and a handy source of water,

A commode to me, but to a granddaughter...

A magic, glimmering, bucket of paint.

Oh, say it ain't,

Oh say it ain't so.

She's painting toliet water 

on the walls.

 

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Both are precious and

Both are precious and heart-tugging in different ways. 

 

The first is a searing casualty of our unsparing reality: a child facing adult-sized pain and the second, some comic relief penned in your witty, signature style that leaves one wanting to laugh and groan at the same time. Not too many people could pull it off with such innate skill, but you turn the everyday into sensitive and cunning art.

 

Another successful Heron Clan!