Poem for day 16: Bum Left Eye

Bum Left Eye

Shannon got the love of diet coke

Jordan, the love of cars

I got the twin brother twelve years late.

Both blue eyed and blonde children

so identical in 1982 and ’94.

 

We all got the squint in our face

the mint and the bum left eye.

 

These are boxes we open always in surprise

when we jut into a moment

and find

that no face on green paper

or number on a page

 

could defeat the passing on of things –

Immaterial, inward and sacred.

J. McIntyre