This is the fourth poem in my personal project about different ways of looking at children (mine, others, and grandchildren, too) growing up. I’ve chosen to do a series of poems at different stages in children's lives, essentially saying goodbye each time. I hope to put them together in a book with pictures of my grandchildren (10 ½, almost 3, 7 months) and children at the particular stage I am describing in the poem. Part of this comes from my talks with my daughter and the children growing and changing so fast. Another part is that I love telling stories through poetry, and I love poems of goodbye, so I thought this would be a good way to combine both passions. It's nice to have a goal and an audience to write for.
