Sisters
Eyebrow lifts
Nostrils flair
A smile to my lips
Suddenly
I see you
Eyes so blue
In contrast to mine
Could we
Perhaps for a moment
In time
Dropping the artificiality
So much in each other
Can we be
Just sisters
Without
our mother
As
we are
Twins we are not
Ten years
A generation apart
Split egg
Yolk and white
Turned round
Where you are left
Myself right
Our elbows touch
Your bluest eyes
Wont look
My brownish eyes
Cannot but see
You are in my raised eyebrow
My biting tongue
Our
Mother and father
Live within
How can we not share a taste
A morsel of the now
Together as we are?
Grandma
I remember each jet button fitting into satin loops the blackness of the fabric deep
it’s short puffed sleeves tight bodice
I turned round and round
my dark hair pilled high. Remembering your large warmth
the whiteness of your hairMy slender dancing body knew
and felt your history in your clothes.Now, I too would not fit even an arm
into those narrow sleeves.Where you the only one who loved me?
Truly ever?
And my sister too?She needs you more now
How do we get to her, grandma?