FOR YOUR BEAUTY DOESN'T STOP AT THE EYES

 

FOR YOUR BEAUTY DOESN’T STOP WITH THE EYES

            K.L. at 17

This is the Year of the Rabbit

and for your birthday coin

I might have ordered that silver one

from China. Instead, for 2023,

I chose the woman journalist,

Kathleen Kit Coleman, 1856-1915,

from Canada, their first woman journalist

and North America’s first woman war

correspondent. The rabbit tempted me

first. When you were three, the year

we put the red wagon together,

(K., where did you put the screws for the wheels?),

you always wanted to go see the bunnies

up the street. K., you belong

in so many places. Kit Coleman,

born in Ireland emigrating to Canada,

covered the aftermath of the Spanish-American War.

You speak more than one language, traveler,

understand cultural roots. You do the math.

Your gateway eyes, one path to your beauty,

know how to sit at a keyboard and tell stories.

Love on this day, Gpa

All our love on this day, for it is yours.

Gpa & Gma—Jim and Karen

21 January 2023