we stopped at "seven dwarfs"
for sundaes

as we drove home
i pressed my face against
the cold car window
and thought about my parents

years later
i heard
that Kennedy
had been
quite
a ladies man

i wondered if Jackie
made Caroline and John Jr.
clean the White House

i vaguely remember
a photograph
of the Kennedy children
eating ice cream cones

that cold November weekend

John Kastholm
NWA's Writing Workshop at Bezazian Branch Library