2022 East Hill
It’s calling me
My Childhood home
Beckoning me back
To a time
Of ladybug trees and scraped knees
And pretty pink peonies
Blue siding and
crushed bottle glass stucco
And oh no, Uh oh
I’m remembering
the painful parts too
Don’t know why
don’t know how
But I hear her saying
Girls, go outside
And that meant
They were going to fight
All day and all night
no end in sight
So we’d go play
and hope
that tomorrow
would be a better day.
Yeah.
2022 East Hill
I think I will
Let you go now.
That was so long ago. I loved that house. There really was a ladybug tree. Just a tree but I named it that because the ladybugs loved it. And my mom did plant peonies. Pink and white ones. She’d clip a few for us every year to take to our teachers on the first day of school.