My Sister: High Ledge Acrobat 1955 Poem by Alexandre Nodopaka

It's been a long hot drive through Spain. It's the end of June. I am free from school from the middle of June through the end of September. We're on our customary yearly vacation and stop here and there between Casablanca and Paris. Our final destination. No reservations! Those were the days!

This time it's in a Costa del Sol village named Torremolinos just a short distance south of Malaga. That's way before there was anything over 3-stories high and an overnight stay cost five bucks allowing for disinflation. So here we are, lounging outside the restaurant, by the swimming pool when other guests look up at something behind us.

We turn and startled out of our wits we see my sister, hugging the wall, crawl on the ledge from our hotel bathroom narrow window to the large living room window. Her first acrobatic act without a net 3 years after the movie The Greatest Show on Earth was released that we were thrilled to watch.