States I have been to

2      Alaska
3      Arizona
5      California -
6      Colorado
7      Connecticut
9      Florida 
10    Georgia
11    Hawaii

12    Idaho
13    Illinois 

14    Indiana

15    Iowa

16    Kansas
17    Kentucky -
18    Louisiana
19    Maine 
20    Maryland
21    Massachusetts
22    Michigan
25    Missouri -
26    Montana 
27    Nebraska
28    Nevada
29    New Hampshire -
30    New Jersey
31    New Mexico -
32    New York
33    North Carolina
35    Ohio
37    Oregon
38    Pennsylvania 
40    South Carolina
41    South Dakota
42    Tennessee
43    Texas
44    Utah -
45    Vermont
46    Virginia -

47    West Virginia
48    Washington
49    Wisconsin
50    Wyoming 



1    Alabama
4    Arkansas

8    Delaware
23    Minnesota

24    Mississippi
34    North Dakota

39    Rhode Island

Sisters Then

I do not know
Which one of us
Was older.

I know you were
The stronger-willed,
Impatient to begin
Your time on earth,
While I perhaps, held back
To ponder
All the implications.

I wonder
How we felt,
The two of us,
To learn I would come first
And mother you,
And not the other way.

I would have worshipped you,
Your beauty,
Strength,
And magnetism-
Then withered in your shadow,
Lost among this world's pale satellites
Of matriarchal suns,
My quiet strengths stillborn
For lack of any gentle place
To root themselves.

So now it is for me
To guide toward mortal womanhood
A proud, gregarious soul
Who shone around and over me
In our primeval home,
Where we two sisters,
Bowing to a sage parental plan,
Spoke brief farewells,
And I,
With one last plea for guidance,
Turned away
To walk
Toward my brief childhood
And my rendezvous with yours.