YOUR BIRTHDAY
︎︎︎ Lamb
︎ Oct 1, 2024
In the delivery room,
inside the table drawer:
a vanilla Tootsie Roll,
a book on wild parrots.
I read to your mother
as she lost more blood
than moved in you
that snown morning.
I think she felt alone.
When sleep came for me,
I came for the Tootsie Roll.
Inside the drawer instead:
a swelling tremolo of bees
making songs of your name
pulling me into an open dark.
inside the table drawer:
a vanilla Tootsie Roll,
a book on wild parrots.
I read to your mother
as she lost more blood
than moved in you
that snown morning.
I think she felt alone.
When sleep came for me,
I came for the Tootsie Roll.
Inside the drawer instead:
a swelling tremolo of bees
making songs of your name
pulling me into an open dark.