1.

He's back. My ten-years-older brother
citing serious relationship problems.
Ten years your fiancé as well!
I can't believe it.
Certainly mum always
thought she was a bitch:
too intellectual/
went to the same horrendous school
as my sister/
thus positioned beside myself
at the dinner table.

Perhaps, moreover, she espoused our appetites:
a bob of auburn hair/
her complexion approaching albino.

2.

On the desk we kept in your old bedroom
I saw a model of your late German Shepherd;
lazing, lionesque, a bold meniscus.

Conveniently, though,
you've gone soft on detail.
The left eye (its left)
was really loyal glass
after that cataract. & all because you could never afford
the proper surgery. You bastard.