The Toddler

(Published Coffee Press Journal online 9.2005 )

Where do you live grandma?
asks the two year old
the pages of my mind flip quick
through its baby-question archive
do not recall such precociousness

Jerusalem I say nonchalantly
Rusalem she muses
she has realized that grandma
does not live in the wind
does not blow in like the fuzz of a dandelion
when she comes to visit

© 3.2005 Helen Bar-Lev