My Friends
When I was young
my best friends
were Rex and Jug,
Jug was my friend
before I can remember,
Rex came later.
We inseparable three
spent our days roaming
miles from home.
It took half an hour
to our neighbor’s house.
She gave us cookies and apples.
A small store and two room
school was fifteen miles.
The school was also
for parties and dances.
It served as a church for
Presbyterians and Baptists.
We lived on the edge of
grasslands and mountains.
There were deer, bears,
turkeys, mountain lions,
lots of small animals,
and snakes of all kinds.
Sometimes we saw a terrapin.
An eagle, a hawk or
an owl often delighted us
as did the water birds.
We lived with my parents
and grandparents.
We had hundreds of cattle.
That was all we knew.
A boy
a dog
a horse
It was ideal
but soon it came
to an end.
Ronald Kuykendall
