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Lori Jones McCaffery
Poems
Jun 2022
LILACS AND HOLLY
The Lilac trees were bushes then
In the front yard of where I grew up.
Their perfume filled the small front room
Of the tiny little house we lived in.
Across the yard were Holly trees
One for each of us three kids
Who loved to push each other
Laughing, onto their sharp leaves.
Three Lilacs and three Holly trees
All planted by my mother
And all of them were tiny shrubs
Just like her little children.
The kids and bushes grew in sync
As days and years meandered by
Until the kids were grown and gone
And left the bushes growing there
To mark the passing of the days
That added up to childhoods filled
With perfume in the afternoons
And sometimes thorns into the fingers.
ljm
372 Douglas St. It's still there, and so are the bushes.
Written by
Lori Jones McCaffery
F/Laughlin, Nevada
(F/Laughlin, Nevada)
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