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Johannah Hildebrand Home
Home By Johannah Hildebrand
hold me back against the raging winds of my youth a race to find where Waldo was be quick
and on Cinderella days we plunged our hands in little fingers scrubbing rubbing cleaning
sparkling mirrors and forts of pillows, purple and soft making dark comforting caves and us
TV on summer days Wheel of Fortune, Price is Right, As the World Turns we play Lotto collard greens and pork chops black-eyeds and jiffy bread hot from the oven, always on Sunday
at night I Love Lucy Let us see what that Walker Texas Ranger has done this time
her smile her diamond rings the earrings we gave her and her perfectly curled hair she was
peach soap and always a sprite on the night stand. and sometimes we ate Viennas from the can
first day of school and she picked us up in the red car, the blue car, the white car the first days
Avon Christmas shopping S&S for dinner Salisbury steak-eat it in a fish bowl
we went to her house at Christmas time and a bottle of Whiskey KFC dinner and a lot of pie
pie on the counter and pie to take home with us her voice as she comes in the door each time we drank and we laughed and suddenly we were more grown than we thought we ever could be
sitting on that porch on the swing, and the little blue house wrapped up and a warm quilt
so now looking back on tiny life lesson grown large and steadfast in my mind I miss her
and when sometimes I feel like I am losing touch her voice through the phone and her words save me
