NaPoWriMo Day 22

Veering slightly off-prompt again today, to write my true emotions, thanking my mother for her example rather than anything specific she taught me to do. Our old house just went up for sale again, and I'm having feelings. Poem prompt: "Today’s daily resource is the Uffizi Gallery, in Florence, Italy. If you are at all interested…

Siren’s Sorrow

Dear sister, I understood your longing, for I felt it first. Lying on the sandbank, sea waves quietly tickling your fins, ears windswept for once. Music, carriages, voices, church bells rang in the early morning when the moon still bathed our scales. Baby sister, I enraptured you before the sailor's shadow. I only wanted your…