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Little Boy
On A Swing

i with me, because I will work to keep
have never had an especially
them, press them into my heart much
clear memory — except for idiotic
like a child places his hand into a
things like pop song lyrics ("She's
soft
dough that hardens and.the print
got it. Yeah, baby she's got it. Well,
stays, permanent like that, forever.
I'm your Venus, I'm your fire ...").
But I cherish, with equal tender-
I can't remember movie plots from
ness, those small, seemingly
last year, or the themes of
forgettable
moments.
great books, or even events
My boy, 4-year-old
from my own life. Acquain-
Yitzhak,
loves to go on the
tances tell me they'll never
swing. If he's dressed and
forget who they sat next to
ready early enough in the
during college graduation
morning, he will go outside
or exactly what they had
for
a few moments and
for dinner before the senior
swing in the back yard
prom. I have many happy
before school. Whenever
recollections of a much
we go to a park, he heads straight
more important occasion, my wed-
for the swing and calls, "Watch me
ding day, but I sometimes ask myself,
go high, Mommy! Watch me!"
"Was so-and-so there?" and I don't
When
we visit my mother in Kansas
remember what we had for dinner,
City he loves to go on her swing
though I'm sure it involved chicken.
where
he can look for the birds and
Perhaps when I am older and have
rabbits that live in the tiny woods
seen my children experience momen-
behind her house. And in the
tous occasions I will remember them.
_./
evening,
at
our
home,
after
dinner
he
I suspect a daughter's wedding day
will return to the back yard and sit for
is something extraordinary, and I
a few minutes, by himself, and swing.
have two daughters. Right now they
He likes to sing as he goes back
are only 6 and 1, but sometimes my
and forth. He does not see, but often
imagination races and I see each
I stand at the back door and watch
under the chuppah with a groom
him. I watch his tiny legs push into
who adores his bride. They look so
the
air, and his bright blue-and-green-
in love and happy and of course I
and-red kippah flashing, like a bird.
cannot stop crying, and my husband
He pushes higher, higher, as he
gently takes my hand. Then they
reaches for the sky, and I ache for
have children of their own, who all
this picture to last forever, to stay with
come to me each day, all 50 of
me just as it is: my little boy on the
them, and then I say, wait, stop this
swing. I ache fiercely for this
imagination, because I have what
unchanging image, yearn as I have
Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky
never yearned for anything before,
calls nostalgia for the present. And
ever,
in my whole life. ❑
then I am back again, in this very
day, and I am glad I have Adinc
and Talya as little girls for so many
more years yet.
Yes, I suspect these pivotal
Elizabeth Applebaum
events in my children's lives will stay
AppleTree Editor