Of Ever... (For Scarlett)

My grand child. “Sure yer a grand child altogether! ” I tell her. She laughs...begs me again & again to tell her. “What am I...what am I? ” I tell her as she cuddles against my breast falls asleep. The other asleep Already across my lap. The dog asleep at my feet. upon my feet. The house too falls asleep in the summer heat. I the only one awake my body a bed for sleeping children or even dozing dogs. Once again the perfect Mom even at my age. Smiling to myself and thinking of kissing Fred when he was my dreamboat & neither one of us could ever conceive of ever growing old.