TO CHLOE ON HER 19TH BIRTHDAY

Life is spread like caramel on a candied
apple, this includes the smear
of air held on by gravity, thus the rocks
hold the center since shortly after the Big
Bang, and we who now exist we float
only 3 generations thick on a sea of
time, how special we must be!
We are a wing and a prayer from never
having been or rolling back into the
primordial fire, take your pick.
In a way it doesn’t matter.  You have
your nineteen years of suffering and bliss.
Congratulations Earthling!
I hope you do great things in your day in
the sun, I hope you have fun and do
what I didn’t or couldn’t do, whatever that
turns out to be.  I hope your
vision sees planets I could not imagine, I hope
you bite into the candied apple, chew it
down sweet and snappy, and tell my spirit
how it tasted
when you get to
where I’m going.

8/1/06