Children Five and Twins

Children five were we, on top with my Dad

Conan, the Barbarian, my Gypsy brother

laughing at him, on the left me, smiling, on

the right my sister, the peppery-tongued

Duchess, in front my youngest brother,

Tom Thumb, cut off on the right, my

other brother, Peter Pan, who left to

live in Neverland, while I opted to go

to Wonderland...

Underneath, my grandma with the twins

my sister and I - I am on the left, once

again, mouth wide open - noisy as

I am still today, and my sister in

wide-eyed wonder at the big,

strange world...