On the train to your hometown At stranger's side on Christmas Eve Dozing in the window seat Your laundry in your lap Your brother's pick-up truck is in the lot Engine running Steady snow the dog's asleep Your mom complains about the tree Cousins come at dinnertime With babies & partners You'll talk about your job or talk about Your apartment On the bed where you first slept With your husband at seventeen Read your yearbooks back to front With TV on & your skirt off & counted all of your teachers who were Younger than you now