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le mot juste
© 2008 michele may

 

i remember
being a little girl
and watching daddy's friends
spin free
'neath crowns of flowers.

the most beautiful thing
i've ever seen,
still.

i said
i would be like that.

free.

yet somehow
flowers became
things that grew
in the neighbors garden.

until you came
and fashioned me
a crown of daisies.