1972
Poetry
by Michael F. Nyiri
To My Sister
Looking deeply into her lonely basin
One finds memories of past
Relationships
Straining to get out
Robust little girls playing jumprope in
the elementary schoolyard scarcely
knowing that the little boys
who're on the football field
could someday be Rhett Butlers
She grows up wishing for
Imaginary Moccorroccos
Turning round and pro-
Posing to her
But the dreams all fade with
highschool beaux who sit next
to her in englishclass deciphering
her looks and giving her the
right answers to last week's
poetry assignment
And the poetry in her eyes
Is unmatched
And all know it.
I can see now she misses
her highschool beaux
And those jumpropes
But there's more to life now
Even in a new house
she can't always be thinking
of Betty (Jo) and Gale and
Kathy and Monica and Patti
and
the rest
New friends will come
soon
Old friends stay sweet
When you meet downtown in 12 years
But the most lasting in your
Present
Are the present friends you make
Your own Moccorocco is waiting also
copyright 2001 by Michael F. Nyiri
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