Child and Mother in a Field

I’m beginning to hear ‘I want …’ this or that for Christmas.
So why not ask for the impossible or the improbable? Ask for
peace on earth, friendship between countries … Ask for homes
for the homeless, food for the hungry … pictures painted on
the sky … poetry published on the front page of newspapers …

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CHILD AND MOTHER IN A FIELD

Ma, you – practicing violin                                                 
in the middle of the field
and I want to sing the grass
into bright red
I want to swing
on the end of your bow
go flying up and down on the strings
be the song
humming out of your fingers
Ma, I want to tuck under your chin
with music running on my back
and you playing fire
Ma, I want …

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First published in Atlantis.  Photo by Andrew J. Weston