28th September 2023

 

grey sky

Cookie the massive dog

scared of the vacuum

© Rachel Green September 2023

my father

reliving pranks he'd performed

on my elder sister before I was born.

I never knew that side of him;

he was always so serious 

in the years that I knew him.

Was it the stress of three children

and a large house that brought him sorrow

or the loss of my mother

or just me?

© Rachel Green September 2023