Our Cousin Sherrill

Just a simple dress with a matching bonnet Yet there was nothing plain about the child Sherrill had gorgeous fat curls and sky-blue eyes Everyone remarked on them even her grandmother You have eyes like that too, grandma Not like those eyes! Their grandmother replied. No one has eyes like those eyes. Sherrill was a beautiful child, prettier than most. She was our cousin, and we loved her. We still do. Sherrill is sixty years older now, but still gorgeous. And her eyes look like grandma’s used to look.