Fly Away
“We have moved up some of the furniture. “You should move upstairs too,” Mama says to Frankie.
“Not until I have to,” says Frankie.
I follow Frankie as she goes to the hallway and puts on her raincoat and hat. She smiles at me.
“If I sleep upstairs I won’t be able to hear Teddy sing to you,” she whispers to me.
She sees the look on my face and puts her arm around me.
“There is a vent in the floor in your room that goes to my room. Don’t worry. I can tell it is something between you and Teddy. A ...secret.”
She opens the door.
“Does he come to sing to you every night?”
I nod.
“And no one else?”
I nod again.
“It made me happy. It made me cry,” she says as she goes out the door to talk to the river.
The rain goes on.
I hope Teddy comes into my room again tonight.
I hope he sings for Frankie.
Upstairs, I take out my notebook. My page is blank except for one line.
The Ring-Around Cow.
I write.
Big black night sky body.
There is a wavery moon outside my window because of the rain.MoreLess
“Not until I have to,” says Frankie.
I follow Frankie as she goes to the hallway and puts on her raincoat and hat. She smiles at me.
“If I sleep upstairs I won’t be able to hear Teddy sing to you,” she whispers to me.
She sees the look on my face and puts her arm around me.
“There is a vent in the floor in your room that goes to my room. Don’t worry. I can tell it is something between you and Teddy. A ...secret.”
She opens the door.
“Does he come to sing to you every night?”
I nod.
“And no one else?”
I nod again.
“It made me happy. It made me cry,” she says as she goes out the door to talk to the river.
The rain goes on.
I hope Teddy comes into my room again tonight.
I hope he sings for Frankie.
Upstairs, I take out my notebook. My page is blank except for one line.
The Ring-Around Cow.
I write.
Big black night sky body.
There is a wavery moon outside my window because of the rain.MoreLess
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