NaPoWriMo2024 Day 8
2 min readApr 8, 2024
Today’s prompt is to write a poem that centers around an encounter or relationship between two people (or things) that shouldn’t really have ever met — whether due to time, space, age, the differences in their nature, or for any other reason.
The Enchanted Strawbabies
by ARHuelsenbeckMy little daughter Reenine has the disconcerting ability
to make things she reads come to pass.The other day she helped me
put away an order of groceries.
"Strawbabies!" she exclaimed
when she came upon the strawberries.
"Remember when I was little
and I called strawberries 'strawbabies'?"
I smiled at the recollection.
"Put those in the fridge," I said.
"We'll bake a shortcake tomorrow."
"Strawbaby shortcake, strawbaby shortcake,"
she chanted merrily.
Chore completed, she skipped away,
back to her Harry Potter book.Late that night, while I sat at the kitchen table
paying bills on my laptop,
the refrigerator door opened all by itself.
Stunned, I watched as the container of strawberries
levitated and glided out of the fridge.
The refrigerator door closed
and the strawberries floated out of the kitchen.
What?!
I chased after them,
my hands touching something solid but unseen.
I extended my fingers and felt a silky membrane
sliding against something underneath.
I pulled it aside and revealed-
Reenie."Invisibility cloak," she confessed.
About Andrea R Huelsenbeck
Andrea R Huelsenbeck is a wife, a mother, a grandmother, and a former elementary general music teacher. A freelance writer in the 1990s, her nonfiction articles and book reviews appeared in Raising Arizona Kids, Christian Library Journal, and other publications. She is currently working on a middle grades novel and a poetry collection.
Originally published at http://arhtisticlicense.com on April 8, 2024.
