Tuesday, January 24, 2012

tribute #313 - E

At an age where I'd never seen unshelled peanuts
I sat on her rug, watching my 1st Dr. Who
ignoring the stilted adult vibe in the room
that I wasn't supposed to notice.
30 years, a cache of letters from E.

2 comments:

Rosemary Nissen-Wade said...

You give the whole picture in these few lines. I feel the warmth of the memory, the background nuances not grasped until hindsight, and the loss implied in the cache of letters. Kinda got to me!

Lodo Grdzak said...

"At an age where I'd never seen unshelled peanuts,..."

Outstanding.