GIRLWIND

                                                  GIRLWIND

Whirlwind visits

roil musty grandparent airs

little bodies everywhere

flying, tumbling

never walking

never mumbling

attention demanding

judication remanding

busy visits

sizzling minutes

prying digits

opening doors and drawers

necessitating tornado repair

hurricane lashings

clothes washing

bathing bodies bare

corralling, lassoing

pajama tucking

sucking cocoa straws

blizzard blows

frozen toes

red faces

hot backs by the fireplace

nearly singeing clothes and hair

meme mama,

calming marina from adventure’s harms

anchored captain

steering boatlets

through life’s growing storms

                                                             

Dennis R. Keefe

8/8/05