Babysitting Brother in the Sun
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My brother is sun tired - still a ray of light,
Warming a pillow, against the early night.
He was running blind across the zesty hill in an amber freefall,
Then he climbed up the rocket ship slide, like a little grasshopper,
Soon sipping water in gratitude on my flat lap…
Next splashing fountain streams up the spine of the garden waterslide…
Now he’s still as silent moonrock,
Eyelids as calm as envelopes waiting in the post,
Until tomorrow when he will moonwalk across the wide summer again.
Warming a pillow, against the early night.
He was running blind across the zesty hill in an amber freefall,
Then he climbed up the rocket ship slide, like a little grasshopper,
Soon sipping water in gratitude on my flat lap…
Next splashing fountain streams up the spine of the garden waterslide…
Now he’s still as silent moonrock,
Eyelids as calm as envelopes waiting in the post,
Until tomorrow when he will moonwalk across the wide summer again.
This poem is copyright (©) Carmella de Keyser 2026
About the Writer
Carmella de Keyser
Carmella de Keyser is a prize-winning British poet, known for explorations of identity and heritage. Founder of the Harlow Circle of Poetry Stanza, judge for the Harlow Poetry Open, she has five books published or forthcoming, from Hedgehog Press, Alien Buddha Press, Parlyaree Press and the Seventh Quarry Press.
