Wordle 40

From The Sunday Whirl, Brenda's wordle words:
ashen, knack, scald, sisters, crush, instinct,
story, scatter, urges, shards, charm, whispering

They were both Missus Bloom,
the story goes,
his wife and his sister,
an unlikely little family,
living side by side
in the big brick house
across the street,
long after the man who brought
them together passed away.

There was whispering at first,
how they'd never get along,
two women in the same house
is seldom easy. But one had
a knack for cooking, the other
an instinct for cleaning and so
they settled into a routine.

When our first baby was
born they sent over
a tiny yellow sweater
and bonnet, the pattern
intricate, charmingly
trimmed with satin ribbons
but I never knew which
of them had made it.

The years passed
they sold the house,
moved to a small apartment.
Then we heard of the tragedy,
the sister, kind and gentle spirit,
killed crossing a street.
The wife died shortly after, heart
broken, she'd lost her best friend.


Process Notes:
I really struggled with these words. Then I decided to focus on the word sisters, and remembered this true story.