Saturday, February 21, 2009

Origins, Volume eight

Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....

Birthday Card

From their parents' example
our children have become
innovators and value
unadorned honesty. For
his father's birthday our

son laboured to fashion
his very own sentiments.
On good quality paper
Gothic lettering worked

painstakingly in gold leaf
the legend stands out:

STAND AND DELIVER

c. 1978 Rita Rosenfeld
published in Origins, March 1978

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