Juxtaposition

It is Common Application essay time.  Today my daughter and husband leave for a college trip.  I will keep the home fires burning... which means keeping the cat and turtle fed, and picking up the house for my brother and sister-in-law arriving at the exact same time on Sunday that my daughter and husband arrive home.  It will be quite the juxtaposition.  There.  Now I've used it three times.

I don*t believe

I have ever used the word

Juxtaposition

In a sentence.

Now I have,

But the above sentence

Really doesn*t count.

I wonder about the vocabulary

That flows

Like magic

From the mouths

Of my children.

They must have been exposed

To way more input

Than mine.

Of course they have.

They were both

On the launching pad

At birth

Each in his own way

Each in her own way.

The juxtaposition

Of home and world

Began

Years and years ago.