Indifference

by Brandy Stoner

My father's mother
tells of picking blackberries
Not a cloud in the California sky
Cliff hears our grandmother,
his yearling ears vibrate with disinterest;
Instead he fiddles with the remote.
I stroke my brother's hair
to the rhythm of Grandma's voice,
swayed by the wisdom of her years
and the dancing still fresh in my bones.

The Author

Brandy Stoner writes non-fiction, fiction for children and their parents, and poetry. She facilitates poetry workshops, and is launching the online poetry journal, Subcutaneous, which will feature an annual poetry competition for teens, and angst-ridden verse on a regular basis. Brandy has a young daughter and an old cat, and they all live together in a little crooked house in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where Brandy is studying to teach high school English.