Wednesday, July 24, 2024

A Summer Past Poetic Bloomings

 Among Cousins

 

Every summer, as a child,

my family would vacation in Delaware.

But one summer, we went to Michigan

to visit with aunts, uncles and cousins.

They would often visit us when they came

to Grandma’s in Pennsylvania.

This was the first and only time we went to them.

We played with our cousins on their turf.

We’d go out on their pontoon boat,

jump into the lake and swim for hours.

We walked around their neighborhood

and met their friends, and realized,

growing up in Michigan was different,

and we were growing apart.

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