Blanketing His Love
Five brothers squawk beneath a coverlet
their father bought to succor all of
them.
Did this paternalistic man forget
that growing kids need to let out
the hem
of trousers that they comfortably wear
when young? No wonder that they fight for
space
who grow in size as their horizons bare
new options. But their father had the
grace
to sensibly ensure there’d be less room
for each of them in turn. For they’d
forgo
their blanket for another from the loom
of their maturity. As such they’d sew
according to their weaving expertise,
acquired once the blanket bared their knees.
acquired once the blanket bared their knees.