Flannel

By Kristine O'Connell George

Red and blue plaid,

pockets with buttons,

my camping shirt

is flannel, worn soft,

pine smells, campfire,

forest moss.

I keep it hidden

in my bottom drawer—

where no one will find it

and wash away

my memories.

Copyright Credit: Kristine O’Connell George, "Flannel" from Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems. Copyright © 2001 by Kristine O’Connell George. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Source: Toasting Marshmallows: Camping Poems (Houghton Mifflin, 2001)