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and when you close your eyes I dream.

About yesterdays, tomorrows,

Acres of land 

And your dad and I, still making each other laugh.

I will always be holding you close to me.

Close like mama read me a story, 

Close like I will always kiss your hurts away

Close like this:

Your little tired body is melting against my mama one 

and i thaw brilliantly

You and me we 

are mine

Forever

Memories I curl round my fingers and take in each morning and evening with water, twice a day,

Dreams bloom into irises and 

convert

My hesitations Into fields of flowers 

tall enough to cut and take to all the neighbors, there are enough for the whole street and baskets besides

And I am smitten by motherhood.

Dreams that fill me with pictures, 

so 

many pictures books full and years full and we are laughing and teasing and loving in 

these pictures.

I want them all. 

And we’ll grow up with the grape vines, on our acres 

the peach trees will grow old

And you’ll have siblings to spare and 

I see

Happy.

(The kind that spills so easily over the backyard fence you can’t help but put hands in pockets and smile-sigh)

One-dimple smile, yours

You’re laughing at their dog playing fetch while I’m 

Wild on my insides,

A true dreamer

Fantasizing on family happiness and how 

Vitamins

You are mine