Very nice presentation. Thank you for such a beautiful expression. - (First
steps are always an amazing experience.) Deborah
Many thanks to all who are posting poems. Keep 'em coming! I'm hoping to
grab some time later today for some responses. Meantime, here's a short
piece I wrote to celebrate our fifth child's, Teddy's, first steps.
best
Randolph
Sempervivum
Against entropy, inertia, every fall,
his skeleton rises
full of smiles
our footling alpha
or rather his
so self-possessed, lissom,
stumbling, holding his loft,
then down, his sorrow
sudden, a missile
flung against flaw
which he just as soon erases
steering his listing frame
once more towards the sky. Little leaf
sing high your rising song:
all flesh is light.
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