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Star Child
Baby Blessings
Harmony Books, 2002
I imagine you budding purple in my belly like the tips of new iris
My days shuffle until the one sharp with urgency lays me down to whelp
Come from song at sunset you are touched with wine plum dark
A thousand blooms like secret shadows drop sweet through leaves of love
Tiny fingers tremble golden in the moonlight June infant star blessed
I shall celebrate the night whisper-wander the universe planet dance all summer
sing star child
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Unpublished, 2007
ystery
beyond
You staggered into our lives
bone hungry, a desert mirage,
gnawing at the edges of everything -
shoes, rugs, furniture, dreams.
Snuck into our predawn beds,
stretched out haunch weary
for a buddy snooze until sunrise
spurrs a rush bark frenzy.
You lurched in fear
from menacing squeaky toys,
small mammals, inconsequentials,
but stood fast at roadsides,
a tiger-striped Wonderdog, halting vehicles with a golden-eyed glance.
May your four-legged grace
be winged with our prayers
in your nose-happy soar through
love-dappled realms,
the mystery beyond.
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Revision
Grisly, this business
of literary precision.
Poems submit to the knife,
a surgical progression
of words carved to spareness, from whole suns to lightning.

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