namespoem #2

I tell our grieving guest, I like that you
call us all “dear heart” that’s what my
mother called me talie says. I say my mom
called us “lambkin” or “lambie,” and I called
you daughters that too, and gillian says
I call cressie “punkin seed” or “punkin pie,”
or “my little bean” Ellie says mine are “hunbun”
or “honeybunny,” or “pusscat,” megan says
I call all my three boys  “sonshine.”