Happy Birthday!

Paula Mahon

I wish you homemade Halloween costumes of bedsheets, magic marker, and cardboard.

A year of creating the imperfect treehouse, collections of stamps, sparkling stones, and seashells, cartwheels at recess and caterpillars caught in jam jars, Weekends of wandering deer trails in the woods, watching the warblers on cattails in the swamp, and dark nights with bright constellations.

I wish you afternoons of Tom Sawyer and Jim Hawkins and long narratives with action figures.

I wish you the warmth of a cat on your bed and the adoration of a dog at your feet, the curiosity of the different and the ease to ask an ear for the unattended, an eye for the overlooked, a voice for the dismissed and a touch for the hurt.

Now blow out the candle.

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