like mother, like daughter

my daughter Becky & i

girl talk and tanning,
healthy dinner cooked for me
while i relax instead of
while she plays with the cat
underfoot in my kitchen the way
she did as a child, movies on
the laptop and we laugh at the same
things, the same times, stop to
pick up freebies by the road
that she will sell on craigslist,
rare time alone together, no one
else around to comment that she
looks like i did long ago, but her
own person too, she got so much
from her dad, but i am happy
to report that there is much i like,
that clearly she received from me.


(c) Ellen Gillette, 2014