Napowrimo 19

The sounds of home prompt:

The Sounds of Home

Growing up, home was a certain Eden --

A sound garden always in full bloom.

The birdsong of my brother’s laughter

My father hooting at the football game

clapping his hands like rolling thunder

at each touchdown, roaring at each loss.

A rustling of papers from my mom’s art room

like the branches of an oak rustle

as a cat leaps in. The thumping of feet

Stampeding down the hallway.

My baby brother babbling like a brook.

Somehow, this life harmonized

Into the soundtrack of a childhood.

And me, in the kitchen, standing at the stove,

Humming a sweet tune, always off key,

Chopping garlic to the rhythm of raindrops,

The hot pan sizzling like the rattle of a snake.