A birthday present from poet John Del Bagno

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For Sally Love Saunders

 

I take joy in you, Sally,

The same way a heart warms watching a little sister

Playing down by the creek. 

With knees in the mud,

You revel in the moss, the salamanders

And all this passing world.

 

Walking along the stream

You have found a clear pool with subtle swirls

And there you build your poems.

With just the perfect leaf

And just the right sticks

You craft rafts

To drift your poems into the current

For others downstream to find.