The step-grandfather cooks and keeps an eye
On basketball games and the weather, worrying
About an incoming storm over the weekend.
The father provides companionship and slight
Tutelage for the daughter as they create
Games of origami scraps, furnish houses
Of pretend, heap up a snowman decked out
With a weakening helium balloon leftover
From the grandfather’s seventieth birthday.
The window is rattling the gutters and the sky
Is grey all day, but for a few hours the three
Of them amuse each other and hold the world
Together, together keep the world at bay.
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