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frasmentsfrom a mother's journal huffs of your sleeping breath a tiny bellows blowing cool across my arm. II wiggles, giggles and grimaces a marching parade of pouts as dream chases dream across your newborn face blowing puppy snorts peeps, gasps and gurgles and mewing whispered purrs each sound bursts from stories you hear beneath your rest. III cat birds at the sill and you beside me shrill calls each morning. lilting vowel songs following your happiness up and down the scale on each new octave you discover. chasing every joy with notes singing it soundly in endless variation fluttering baby keyboard of fingers and toes your voice more mobile then your four-month body and dimpled like your cheeks. IV pink fledgling mouth popping wide and holding patient milk bliss feeding us both. v plum-sized fists and berry toes each of your fingers and mine into the choir-boy 0 sweet hollow of your mouth. velvet tongue traces discovering tastes and shapes memorizing each and wetting them with life. 77 ...

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