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on a spring day

Stephanie Kaylor

in the garden my daughter’s
fresh soft feet tread

lightly, as if avoiding inflicting
and pain upon the bed of mulch

too young to know her body
will never stand a chance against

the iron muscles this world pumps
relentlessly, too young, in her

white sundress, to know one
can never be too young.

She smiles as the ferns graze
her porcelain legs, their verdure

running thick in the lazy morning
air, and I cannot help but

wonder if the smile I too feel
is anything but an open declaration

that I cannot face the truth,
that I gave birth to a daydream.

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