New breakfast treat, iced raisin bread
Sugar Snacks in the cereal bowl
honey in Orange Pekoe tea.

Allowed a lone walk
to the corner store
for bread and candy.

Scrapbooks to make
with cut out pictures –
Ladies Home Journal.

Grandma and me, front porch swing
shelling peas, snapping beans
enjoying our lemonade.

Picked roses from trellis
mint from the garden
making our own ice cream.

After supper porch watch
Fireflies and emerging stars.
Then bubble bath in the claw foot tub.

Watched Grandma let down
her long silver hair and
brush one hundred strokes.

Hot cocoa and off to bed
lulled to sleep with whistle of
traveling railroad nigh.

-Sue Neufarth Howard