Winking

By Solveig Paulson Russell

I screw up my eyes and blink and blink,

But I never can make just a single wink.

I just can’t make only one eye do

The quick little flicker I want it to.

My sister can wink one eye or the other

And so can my dad and so can my mother.

But I can’t wink and I wonder why.

Dad says I’ll do it by and by.