poem: sweet dreams of her youth

in her dreams, she is the young woman,
living at home with her parents
and ten siblings,
on the farm, at the beginning
of her youthful life’s passions
and her long successful career

now well into retirement
one of three surviving siblings
in her second half of life
living in a time of pandemic,
in her neurodiversity, she awakens,
with one question for me:

‘where is everybody?’

Herb Stone
here&now working poetry
September 26, 2021

photo by author

‘Cathey’s sweet dreams’