JOAN BARANOW

​SAINT JULIAN PRESS POET

 

SPRING BIRTHS

for Rick

 

 

Tonight the new moon

looks like the rim of an eyelid.

 

Wisteria winds around the redwood porch.

Orange blossoms open.

 

It's May, and again your birthday

returns,

a fortieth fanfare this year.

 

Surprising, isn't it, that nothing hurts,

that instead you've reaped tenfold

from the seeds you'd sown.

 

Iris, daisies, forget-me-nots,

wild white onion,

a new blue star-shaped Lithadora

the deer might eat,

all the flowers I can see from here

 

and more yet to come,

a bag of bulbs in the shed.

 

To think you were born

in the rush of cherry blossoms.

 

What luck that Congress

would add an extra hour of light to your day.

 

So let this fax machine

send blessings

and love from afar, Maychild ,

 

poet, father, friend,

 

forty years circling a star.

 

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• NEW MOTHER AGAIN
• SPRING BIRTHS
• THINGS HE SAID​​
• GRANDMA​

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