Odd Hours

It’s four AM I’m wide awake no chance of more sleep clicking noises from the dining room low hum is it voices? I get up pad into the dining room. daughter and grandson playing Yahtzee at the dining table laughing together grandson worked late daughter insomniac I sit down join the game daughter finally peels off for more sleep grandson and I continue playing he makes a sandwich cuts me up an orange I have an oatmeal cookie with my coffee grandson decides to go to bed I stay up dress for church write some poetry it’s nine o’clock