Still

Still your mind
Feel the present
I am six lying in bed
At Grandma’s house
Smelling the scent of
Fresh-cut lumber from
The lumberyard next
Door listening to the
Train whistle and
The crossing
Signal in the
Darkness
Safe in
Bed.
The scent
Of pancakes
And bacon drift
Into the room as
The early risers
Are already on
Their way out
To jobs as I
Slide out of
Bed to see
What is
Going
On
Then
Sit at the
Kitchen table
Breakfast is set
Before me I am
Calm ready to
Taste bacon
Pancakes
Butter &
Syrup
Watching
Grandma as
She makes things
Happen around her.