happy birthday janet

¡Feliz cumpleaños!Reflections on the birthday of Janet Dudley April 2010

Wild Flowers (mostly daisies)

Wild romance

Wilderness picnic tables

InThis Issue

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Daisy chain gangWithout so much as a “By your leave”They sprangFrom the earthAll around me

Now they are aBunchA nosegayA crownNo longer fearsome

AndYours

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BelleSoft curve of stemCradledEasy in my handsYou singIn tiny bellish tonesA song that I should know

I am yoursAs you spring and stretchToward sky andEarth at once

Offering

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Floral arrangementThey grew boldAnd saidHow about one of us?

Maybe orangeMaybe whiteMaybe anything you want

Maybe roundMaybe notButYou can have anything you want

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WonderBending to sweepThe fragrant earthGrandmother findsHer vernal pose

GentlyShe swaysFrom the tip ofEachKnobbedFinger

To the loose-limbedBoughs at her heights

StillGreen as spring

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Harvest

Cold darknessHer precursorWhets the desireAt my core

She draws me outAt the rootShaking freeThe frozen clods of soil

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Te Quiero

Quiero la esperanza subconciente de alegriaUn sentido nebuloso de hambreQue ningun alimento puede curar

Quiero cogerloLlorarloSoltar las lagrimasComo siMe despidiera de una conocida

To be

A songThe morning lightWith voiceless silenceSinging

Casts aboutThe colored tonesOf a birthTransformedIn lifeResounding

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ThereThey stood

Watching me work

Never offeringAs though

ThereWas nothing they could do

ormaybe

They had done it already

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Distributed ByHappy Birthday Sweetheartpublishing group of one

Designed and written byStephen Esker

Poured outBetween us

Table talk