Happy Father's Day Memories

Memories return
of Father and Grandfather:
Happy Father's Day.

I remember my father as a tall, handsome man. I remember he liked his coffee with milk, but I don't know if he put sugar in it. I remember his hands, strong as they held my small hand. I remember Daddy putting apple jelly on his hotcakes. I remember Daddy reading me the Sunday Comics.

Memories return
my father was a tall man
who like coffee and hotcakes.

I remember my Grandfather's friends called him Pete. I remember watching Grandpa roll his own cigarettes. I sit at the kitchen table watching Grandpa roll cigarettes and sip black coffee.

Memories return
my Grandfather's bald head
was framed in gray hair.