The April Birthday People

Has candlewatt power

(for Todd on his birthday)

As the blue moon hangs pink
over the new time home,
the bean can on the desk
rings for you
to follow your bliss into
another year of being.

No traditional lane system here
just a scheming for a dish served
on a day off beamèd directly
to your nightstand

which bends to bantamweight plays
limned with pens
objectionable to daily learning —
something about Section 650
being “off the grind,
high above the grid, avec plaisir”

& your style,
objecting to a concept
as gnarly as, say, the bloody clovis,
but willing to entertain & dissect
it all into a night’s fisty knot
which can be yet defanged to
a shirt-bright spinnaker,

fenagled into a pyjama pants bunday dance party,
bowling the boat of those most among you
onto a sparking, undiscovered shore.
Such as only you could properly rock
your rainbow afro of truth be torch
and skypaint and firestarter there.




16 April 2009 B r e t t & J a n I n e


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For Julie on her birthday


Because you’re one of the people
that cause the flag to get raised
and sky scrapers to become nicely
hand-sized so we don’t have to
surf the ledge, a communal clink
is hereby put out across the loudspeaker yard
& oer the land as boisterous witness
to your presence.

It’s nigh mellifluous
& laden with intelligence
turning champagne bottles into bowling pins
& hoffing sessions into Fellini-esque grandeur.
Because you are the Miss that we love to sass
all the way to the wine bank and back
something about swaying & rock n roll
should be noted here
because being Queen for a day (& only one!)
entitles you to be the bad ass momma you are
times eleven.

You’ll always be warm and delicious to us,
your friends, through rough water, Wilco bleeps, beaches and Gras.
The gathering storm is a good one.
It means all your friends are coming together to roll the spiral bunting.

19 April 2009 Brett & Janine