Grandpa

Grandpa

Couch puffed up

As she landed

Curiosity on her face

From the book she was handed

Her little hands

Traced over every page

Awestruck and quiet

She was engaged

Flipped through the photos

Read all the quotes

Learned new memories

Studied the notes

So many faces

Some familiar

Some strangers

So oddly configured

Big green eyes

Had a million questions

And he wanted to answer

Every last one of em

He told her the stories

Of years long forgotten

So many good ones

And a few more solemn

Phantoms of a time

That didn’t exist to her

But to him

The time was a blur

A leather bound book

Filled with generations

Bringing together

The most diverse of kin