The Poet's Touch |
Little Chloe tells me her favorite nook is beneath her upstairs bedroom dormer window. She wriggles her nose and says. “I can smell the climbing roses while I am reading.” After summer chores are finished I peek in her room to find Chloe curled up in the pink plaid Bean Bag chair reading her “Girls Life.” We talk. “Did mom have a hideaway, Granny?” “Oh yes.” I reply. “Her sisters played games on the screened porch but your mom played on a quilt behind the glider sketching pictures of our pet dog, Ginger. I still have them.” We huddle together while I help Chloe draw a likeness of her fluffy, grey kitten, clip the drawings together and title them “Old Ginger and Kristy Kitty – ready for framing.” I ponder – the old and the young. Another precious moment clipped together ready for framing. Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. --Henri Frederic Amiel |
Ready for Framing |
© 2011 by Rita Goodgame. All rights reserved.
| by Rita Goodgame |
| Rita Goodgame has won an Arkansas Writer's Grand Conference Literary Award, prose/poetry first place awards in ByLine Magazine and The National League of American Pen Women, Pioneer Branch. Her work has also appeared in publications such as Women's World, Grandmother Earth, Soiree, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, The Bulletin, International Old Lacers, Inc., and Our Arkansas ... Special Places, '09. |
Photo of child © Larry Griffin. All rights reserved.
