an explanation - by maisie

http://www.abctales.com/story/maisie/an-explanation

I thought this poem had a lot of potential...

particularly

'a child admired for the shortness of life'

and

'mother cooked corden bleu meals seasoned
.
with selfishness, inside a closed door she
whisked up cakes'

Also the idea of the siblings not staying touch, each of them 'inventing'...

A quietly dark, and quite powerful, poem. Even on first read.
I might have liked it if 'selfishness' was replaced with 'bitterness', just because it's less of a judgement call.

(oh, and it should be my father's neice in the first line - you missed an apostrophe.)