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Sunday, January 10, 2016

Birthday Girl (a poem for Tanya)

cacophonous giggle
appealing and peeling the paint off the walls
as it peals down the halls
and we’re all enthralled
at the music spontaneous and contagious
glorious and outrageous
embodied in ringlets and a smile bodacious
that bounds and beats
that pounds the streets
with talent and temerity
in righteous parity
fierce friend/ferocious foe
fortitude and forbearance
in puckish appearance
juggling words and worlds
in painterly swirls
a Starry Night
no more luminous
than her eyes and openness
all this we celebrate
as we raise a glass
concentrated and distilled
with the liquor of a laugh
as intoxicating and enveloping
as moonshine drunk
in sunshine on a perfect summer day
for that is her way

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