prettiness each spring
and go to it with
everything they’ve got? Who
would criticize the bed of
yellow tulips or blue
hyacinths?
So put a
bracelet on your
ankle with a
bell on it and make a
little music for
the earth beneath your foot, or
wear a hat with hot-colored
ribbons for the
pleasure of the
leaves and the clouds, or at least
a ring with a gleaming
stone for your finger; yesterday
I watched a mother choose
exquisite ear-ornaments for someone
beloved, in the spring
of her life; they were
for her for sure, but it also seemed
a promise, a love-message, a commitment
to all girls, and boys too, so
beautiful and hopeful in this hard world
and young.
ankle with a
bell on it and make a
little music for
the earth beneath your foot, or
wear a hat with hot-colored
ribbons for the
pleasure of the
leaves and the clouds, or at least
a ring with a gleaming
stone for your finger; yesterday
I watched a mother choose
exquisite ear-ornaments for someone
beloved, in the spring
of her life; they were
for her for sure, but it also seemed
a promise, a love-message, a commitment
to all girls, and boys too, so
beautiful and hopeful in this hard world
and young.
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