Flannel
Red and blue plaid,
pockets with buttons,
my camping shirt
is flannel, worn soft,
pine smells, campfire,
forest moss.
I keep it hidden
in my bottom drawer—
where no one will find it
and wash away
my memories.
Kristine O’Connell George, "Flannel" from Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems. Copyright © 2001 by Kristine O’Connell George. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Source:
Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems
(Houghton Mifflin, 2001)