Gina M. Tabasso

For Her Thirty-Fourth Birthday

Her life shows itself beneath her eyes-
the want, the cloud, the void.
He asks for her trust, her perfume,
for her cut flowers to grow.
He is an answer, a smile that dazzles,
a ring that cuts glass, periwinkle ocean around
an island, A Mid-Summer Night's Dream
on the beach in Halifax at sunrise.
He leaves his country for a cliff
where the spider rules,
where all that is blue is beautiful.
At the beginning of their world
they sit beneath an aesthetic
that must rise brilliantly,
dazzle and melt butter cream roses, wake them
after lightning bugs have their say.
And she must love him most, love him best,
like cool breeze on a July day.

© 2003 Gina M. Tabasso

GINA M. TABASSO a poet with her M.A. in English, has won numerous awards and has been published in Mangrove, The MacGuffin, Mid-American Review, Slant, Blue Mesa Review, Pavement Saw, and others. She is Senior Editor of a construction trade publication and Associate Editor of Grasslands Review.

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