Lament on the Eve of Her Daughter's Birthday

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               <head>Lament on the Eve of her Daughter's Birthday</head>
               <byline>Estelle Leontief</byline>
               <lg>
                  <l>My head doesn’t ache </l>
                  <l>no one pulls out my fingernails </l>
                  <l>what I eat sits easy</l>
               </lg>
               <lg>
                  <l>On this long </l>
                  <l>blue night each year </l>
                  <l>leven forget that </l>
                  <l>hard hard laboring</l>
               </lg>
               <lg>
                  <l>a magician </l>
                  <l>hacking a woman in two</l>
               </lg>
               <lg>
                  <l>If I lie still </l>
                  <l>your thirty-six years </l>
                  <l>blow my mind.</l>
               </lg>
               <lg>
                  <l>II try to reach you </l>
                  <l>I'm too short</l>
               </lg>
               <lg>
                  <l>But now at last </l>
                  <l>night darkens </l>
                  <l>into day</l>
               </lg>
               <lg>
                  <l>and you may wish for </l>
                  <l>what you want </l>
                  <l>What is it</l>
               </lg>
               <lg>
                  <l>Write me </l>
                  <l>Tell me something </l>
                  <l>Sing</l>
               </lg>
            </div>
            <div type="poem">
               <head>September Solitaire</head>
               <byline>Ann Lauterbach</byline>

<lg>
                  <l>There are always added difficulties: unwashed glasses, </l>
                  <l>the box with some sweaters, the floral arrangement </l>
                  <l>in the kitchen, the kitchen floor. It was a grid </l>
                  <l>of pale blue and gray linoleum; it no longer exists. </l>
                  <l>All of us move in time for winter. </l>
                  <l>Things are most dangerous when habits are kicked; </l>
                  <l>birds, and the way you imagine.</l>
               </lg>
               <lg>
                  <l>We tell stories. </l>
                  <l>This to restrain the sense that we would give in </l>
                  <l>too easily when the time came. The time had come. </l>
                  <l>The first red and the first green are not the same; </l>
                  <l>between death and birth are radical colors, </l>
                  <l>of which the trees are stain. I told stories for hours, </l>
                  <l>each made from imminent, rendered places; talk itself </l>
                  <l>a terrain. I recall games: ducking and kisses and tails. </l>
                  <l>Someone is always blinded. Someone was removed in a chair.</l>
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         <p> Ann Lauterbach is a native New Yorker. She has just compiled her first collection of
            poems, titled Chalk. Estelle Leontief was poetry editor of Colloquy magazine, has
            published two books of poetry—Razerol and Whatever Happens—with Claire van Vliet of
            Janus Press, Vermont. She is now a reader of poetry and fiction for the Partisan Review.
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