all swagger today

Thanks to Front Porch Review for posting my poem, Brother.  

I wrote this a few years back and took my sweet time working on it.  

I received notification it would be published just a couple days after my brother and his family went home.  I was slogging through the grief of being separated from him, and the timing couldn't have been more on point.  

Though I have a handful of brothers (and am proud to tell anyone who will listen that I've won the brother lottery), Scott and I have always been the closest.  We are only a year and a half apart, and it is a known fact I idolized him growing up.  Well, I still sorta idolize him, but I draw the line at a few things now like getting the same haircut as him.