Len Kuntz’ most recent poem to appear here was Storm Lake (August 2012).
The Birthday Album
By Len Kuntz
The days are pages looking back at you on a table,
loose and uncollected like leaves
or your windblown hair.
loose and uncollected like leaves
or your windblown hair.
See how you smile in this one?
And here’s your boy, swaddled like baby Jesus in your arms.
Pick up the picture in the right hand corner
and you’ll find yourself a little girl again,
glitter in your hair, face-painted cheeks and
bubble gum smile.
Once
you lifted your face to the sun and said you’d own it,
and now, on this, the brightest of all days,
your claim has
rightfully come true.
Nice.