Here’s a year when all went upside down,A nutty, silly year, the dumbest year.And look, we’re all agoraphobic now,Anthropophobic even, strange to say;Behavior that’s against…
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A limerick for your birthday: 15 years, you post-millennial, Is already one 10th your sesquicentennial. So fast, you’re growing and changing, Metamorph-teen-mutating, Into someone who’s…
Leave a CommentThis year you are a world traveler. UpAnd down the Pacific Rim you go. First stop:Japan. (You stood below where Little BoyDeparted the Enola Gay…
Leave a CommentA cool day with blasting sun,13 years ago, awaiting you. Twilight fell and you announcedWith vigor your imminent arrival.Contractions were close apart,The doula timing them…
Leave a Comment12! The duodecimal girl.Sassy and witty and confidentAll that I could ask for in a tween.The year’s a blur for us, the boxesEverywhere, boxes. The…
Leave a CommentThere’s nothing better than the human heart.The driving, rolling passions moving usTo write a poem, to sing, to reach the moon,To move a mountain (or…
Leave a CommentThis weekend two new lives entered our lives,Two tiny-but-growing creatures, mewing, fullOf vim, electric, whirlwinds. I had thoughtYour sister and you were whirlwind enough, but…
Leave a CommentHey, there, nine-year-old! You’re pretty special, With your sassy sophistication, Your biting sense of humor, and Your ever-growing list of skills that I Don’t have like sewing your own…
Leave a CommentYou’re eight years old today; that’s twice as oldAs Violet is, a feat you’ll never findA way to duplicate… although I shouldNot put it past…
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