Rooms

(in memory of Sarah Kate 1980-2010)

We bought this house

brand new, never lived in,

when she was one.

We were a family of three then

though her mother and I had yet to marry.

Her brother, my son, arrived

when she was seven. They

shared a room for a while.

Even after, he liked to

fall asleep beside her.

They traded rooms for a time.

Then switched back

and forth and back

and so on.

She grew too fast.

Children always do.

The rooms remember her.

(Originally written Sunday, April 3, 2011)