Arthur

After school, shoes fling, socks sling, slide

Into the tile of the kitchen.

It’s a wonderful kind of day.

Squeak of the silver spinny stools,

Crunch of the comforting oats in Life

Cereal, smells of my mom’s soothing

Dinner seeking. Worries cleansing one by one. Where

You can learn to laugh and play. Grease glides

On the controller Buttons. Click,

Click, Channel 132. Silverware laying

On silver countertops. Eagerly watching

An aardvark; wearing yellow, blue.

I say hey.

Sophie Ossip