Granpa

The house vibrated
when the fat man snored.
Windows rattled,
noise shuddered the floors.
Deep, in deep sleep
his guttural sounds
pounded the air waves
upstairs and down.

Then, silence for seconds.

All thought
he had died.
The house stopped
its shaking.
All stood wide eyed …
but then a loud choke …
fat man continued again
to shake the foundations
with the strength
of ten men.

Sally Plumb