Red and Blue - Section Eight

Red and Blue

Snapshot from days when limbs were skinny and days were long
When one gray house held one red brother and one blue sister
Milk at dinner and orange juice at breakfast
Him a gallon of ice cream per sitting
young and skinny and red and smiling.

Caught making that face I used to make
eyes so blue and scrunched and smiling;
Him, embarrassed smile laughing eyes
young and skinny and red and smiling;
Sunny and unspoiled, Red and Blue
unbrushed curls blond and unruly
toes and hands holding and wiggling.

The shrubs were smaller then and so were we
blond and bony and young and smiling
young and skinny and red and smiling
Red and Blue against gray and green.

The idea for this poem, also written for a workshop, came to her while contemplating a picture of herself and her younger brother as children.

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