June's Recording

I sat at her funeral listening to a recording

A recording she made for my mother
A very young women in a new city
Singing songs she heard at the theater

Then she spoke to her little sister
The sister who was far away and that she missed
She talked about the theater and laughed

I sat with my sister among my cousins
Thinking of sisters together while cousins played
They talked about their lives and laughed

We remember those sisters today
We talked about our children and grandchildren
We talked about our lives and laughed

Where did nearly a century go by
From when they were born on an Iowa dairy farm
To today where we miss them talking and laughing