Just half a block ahead, the house
Where surreal was named,
Only blocks from where she was born 30 years ago.
The sun sets, brilliant may evening,
Over West hills, I imagine Maui
2500 miles away, isis born 24 years ago.
Daisies in the lawn this time of year
Beautify the lush spring grass around me.
To my right only half a mile,
Our Mesa was born almost 22 years ago. The house repainted looks the same.
Sun sets, the air warm and golden.
I stand and stuff my picnic away for a short bike to a tavern. It's just a hop away, if my age will comply I'd be delighted.
Born at homes all three, one
Rented we lived in; the next, owned by our wealthy midwife; the last, the midwife's rental she'd moved from the island to be
On mainland. The daisies partly in twilight thrive.
Mothers comfortable with nature
And skill, and health, and fortune
Forsook a hospital in their unsick delivery, landlord's surprise.
One died of asthma in his driveway, literally, only a couple months later
One both landlady and midwife
Gave the shirt from her back to clad us in clapboards victorian.
It's not the sun that reaches Maui,
Rather the ocean
time beams to us in shelter.
May 16
SE Portland
(All three girls were named in their birth homes....only Surreal's name occured to me prior to birth)
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