happy birthday.

I saw a beautiful Alice
stumbling out of a deep hole
in the mounds of the earth, her
hair spilling in rainbows all
over her lithe shoulders and
a miscreant smirk placed onto
her beautiful face like pillars
of daisy-chains making faces
at the sunshine above.

she told me that I was fragile,
like a pocket-sized worry doll,
but I knew that she was gentle
as well, like the dolphins that
form shapes in the water, arcs
and silver-foam salt globes.

she disappeared from me, on to
a land of fairy-tales and girls
who drown in bathtubs but
keep their dresses clean, where
boys make promises and kisses
are like wild orange tiger lilies.
there the sunsets lick the horizon
and make pink and yellow fairy
wings, and I thought to myself
that she needed a haven as
beautiful and precious as herself,
where the constellations break
into patterns of sea-scaled mermaids
and angels with diamond wings.

She always told me that someday
I would get my wings, as she sped
off into the freckled night. I told
her not to forget our garden, our
magic place of dragonflies and
violins and eve’s fruit not forbidden.
she could only smile and left me a
moon-tinged kiss, saying “fear not,
sunshine, I am always here,
always, always.”


for my beautiful June on her birthday. I love you so much, my strength. happy birthday.

• On Tuesday, July 15, 2008, snowdrop (2145) wrote:
  
  I needed to hear this today. I needed to hear my heart smile...I needed...to know I am loved. I needed you.
  
  
• On Tuesday, January 29, 2008, blue (1605) wrote:
  
  I think this may be your best work yet ni-chan, it's just so.. rich! such an overflow of intoxifying wordplay, it draws me in like all great writing does. That's one hell of a present lady; not to mention a most deserving recipient. ni-chan rawr!
  
  
• On Monday, January 28, 2008, What Limes (118) wrote:
  
  awesome.
  
  
• A former member wrote: what a lovely gift from a sister
  
  
• On Sunday, January 27, 2008, snowdrop (2145) wrote:
  
  This is the most beautiful birthday present I could receive. Thank you, my sister. I couldn't love you more. I can't help the tears touching the rims of my eyes, and I'm not scared to let them fall, because it's shining here...and it's oh, so glorious! Thank you, thank you, thank you. xoxox