NaPoWriMo 2016 Day 18

Sounds Like Home

Will we see you at church on Sunday
If the good Lord's willin' and the creek don't rise
You know Momma always said 
Better to use sugar iff'n you be wanting to catch flies

Put out your taters on Good Friday
And wait until Blackberry Winters come and gone
To set out your 'mato plants
Thunder in February - frost in May
Blue paint for the porch to keep away the haints

The sounds of home echo in my ear
Follow me throughout the year
And when I peer into a looking glass
The face I see carries all the wisdom of my past

~ Ellen Apple 4/18/16