The Mouton Coat
Soft and brown like a big mama bear
Was Aunt Lil's mouton coat.
She would wrap me in it with her.
It smelled like camphor from her closet.
Her whole house smelled like that.
She had a clock that ticked loudly
In the living room.
I would sit on the couch
Smell the camphor
Listen to the ticking
As I waited
For her to offer a candy
From the candy dish
A Hershey's kiss.
Heaven is made of big mama bears
Offering Hershey kisses.
Mrs Crumbar... she wasn't an aunt but our elderly grandmotherly neighbor, who always wore her fur coat and her little white gloves, jewelry and make up, spotless childless house. She would send you to the corner grocery and when you returned she gave you a quarter and a pick from the fancy glass covered candy dish. Ahhh memories from a child's mind, priceless! (ps had an Aunt Lil too but she didn't have the fur and candy just 8 kids.)
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