To choose one song and the memory
it evokes, pull into the snowy parking lot

at the bottom of Toggenburg with the opening
piano notes of Elton John on the A.M. station,

watching your older sister with her long
blond hair put the car in park, and you

both buckle your ski boots from the front
seat, each door open wide while Elton sings

“It’s a little bit funny, this feeling inside…”
And you think your four-years-older sister

with an endless string of boy-
friends must have someone who croons

this song about her, but how
can anyone mistake sky

blues for green? And anyway,
what I mean to say is,

it was more a hill than a mountain
when I sang along. 

**Thanks, E. Elizabeth Beck, for the prompt at Samantha Ratcliffe’s series!