a spoon in each hand
eyes and mouth open circles:
hungry morning babe

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you laugh when you fall
clap for yourself, dance and sing--
i learn joy from you.

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i see toys, clothes, mess.
you see your story's landscape:
chaos drives your plot.

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bright green light: morning
small voices wake me from dreams
greet me with their grins.

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a flurry of feet
two hands grasp and drag and reach
toys disappear: clean!

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fingers find balance,
find pressure and direction,
pull red across page.

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blue and purple lines
flowers, laser guns, rainbows:
art and story meet.

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twilight swims in greens
glass dark water, shadowed pines
night finds the lake first.

adults watch, talk, laugh
catch moments with pixels, words:
children just run free.

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boys in a long line
run after one another,
chasing just because

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boys in swimming trunks
run laughing beneath blue sky
forging first friendships.

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purest of delights:
cupcakes, slip n slide, presents.
you're only five once.