My other beautiful Aunt/did everything I wanted to grow up to do/drove her own zippy car/fought toe to toe with my unapproachable father/had a song in her voice of a faraway island home/wore bangles that made music/laughed sometimes like the foolish ways of childhood were a surprise/knew the way of hard work/knew the way of devotion/had a look of disapproval that could rewrite history/made me marvel at her strong elegance/and spicy soul

I was blessed with an abundance of Uncles/a beautiful duet of Aunts/ grandfather and his eldest daughter/a trip home/an island home/a sojourner makes landing/ home/holds on tight/after days upon nights of dreaming/so many arrivals in the dark tear strewn/arrivals that always slipped away