Conversation with My Brother

by Joanna M. Weston 
  
we strolled
cathedral streets
 
drank memories
in old pubs
 
carolled down
cobbled lanes
 
today his name weighs
on my hands
 
I take it into my mouth
and taste hop-gardens

hear a broken radio
beside an open window

where he waits
to be pushed


© 2007 by Joanna M. Weston. All rights reserved.
Joanna M. Weston lives on Vancouver Island. She is a full-time writer of poetry, short-stories, and poetry reviews. She has a middle-reader, The Willow Tree Girl, in print.