Inklilngs 2024

Summer Mornings 2016 Lael Sanders ’26 Maybe you’re standing in the kitchen With your grandma Making scrambled eggs and hot chocolate In your favorite mug The one with the lion on it You loved it because it starts with an L, And so does your name And maybe one day you’d grow up to be strong and powerful like that lion But for now, You’re small and safe in your grandmother’s house Watching the manatees out the window You get distracted and burn the eggs a bit And you make a mess in the kitchen But she doesn’t mind, She never minds Soon you’ll grow up Learn to do complicated math And over-analyze poetry And have to face your future But for now, it’s just you, Your grandma, And a shiny mug with a lion on it. Let me be young for a few more minutes. I promise I’ll make up for it. 31