My sister's cookies, by Laura Alaniz | poems, essays, and short stories in Poeticous

Laura Alaniz

Laura Alaniz

My sister's cookies

My sister’s cookies

Chocolate chip

Got my nephew to

Say her name

For the first time

My sister’s cookies

Brought the family

Together

If only to fight

Over the last one

My sister’s cookies

Have kitchen chat

Mixed in the dough

Along with kid’s fingers

And just a pinch of sass

I love

My sister’s cookies

Because they remind

Me of her

I don’t even like

Chocolate chip cookies

(2015)

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