Kids
from The Words To Say Hosted by Kristen McIntyre
Kids No one told me how funny it would be to have them point at my freshly showered body parts and repeat “what’s that?” as their dad gives each part a silly name and we all laugh uncontrollably. Or how suddenly the topic of how babies are born can come up, and how easy it would be to tell the plain truth, only to have her shrug and move on to a new topic. No one told me how frustrating it is to sing the same nursery rhyme seven times in one night, or how scary it feels to catch glimpses of their face in the morning light where at just the right angle they look mature beyond their age. No one prepared me for the months when one drives you nuts and the other seems easy, and the months after that where it’s the other way around. If only they’d told me how her skin would feel on mine while we spun in circles — the gravity of her little body pulling away from me as her arms wrap tighter on my neck. Wispy hair floating mid spin. Hot breath exhaling laughter deep from within her belly. Second hand stopping on the clocks for just a moment, only to quickly begin again.
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