A Rarity

Photo by Scott Webb

Holidays are

time for families to get together. To eat & celebrate & love. So on that day,

that Mother’s Day,

The house was full of family members usually tense & uptight,

but this day

they’re lively & kind & free. & we’re outside, all together,

which are

usually phrases not put together, especially side by side when talking about us.

Side by side,

like we were, in our makeshift softball field up on the hill where we

used to live.

The old house, the one that still feels like home, but sold like the gloves & bats

that, on that day,

we played with like we were all children again, despite the later bonding

over the day

& the aches & the pains & the smiling memories it left us with.

A rarity.

We didn’t know it would be the last happy memory of that house before it sold.

Bought by a family

with more children than ours, ripe with possibility of fun & joy & memories.

Ripe for new Holiday Rarities.