it seems funny

as we two cousins walk

side by side

feet click clack tapping in adult heels

saying nothing but feeling loudly

behind a line of our family, a horse drawn carriage with my grandfather inside

and i thought about when i was 4

and was walking behind my cousin, in the rain, trying to be silence and sacred

my 23 year old feet were following my 4 year old feet who were following my cousin’s who were following a horse’s that held my grandmother and now my grandfather who smelled like DC and baseball 

and after 19 years apart 

their feet are side by side again