Your Tenth Birthday
clamor, bells, ringing that
sounds like the radio's voice,
awakened from your nap
by your own light, your flesh
glows a little, you leave traces
on the curtains when you sigh;
outside in the warm evening streets,
people leave their cars at stoplights,
move onto our lawn, hold their breath
at our picture window, all of us waiting

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