One More Birthday
Fireworks ferment on the freeway
a Disneyland donation on Friday night
A daughter's twenty-first birthday
celebrated with Persian cuisine and candlelight
With fighter's face and fiery hair
she sparred into life
spun sewing thread webs in the air
wore cowgirl boots to kickbox strife
My child orders her first drink
Her lips gnarl with distaste
Alone I think
about the innocence we waste
some morsel of immortality
still savored in memory
Ryfkah 4/4/03
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