{"id":1275,"date":"2011-03-15T00:01:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mamamonk.com\/?p=1275"},"modified":"2011-03-15T00:01:06","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T07:01:06","slug":"a-poem-for-thankful-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/michaboyett\/2011\/03\/a-poem-for-thankful-tuesday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Poem for Thankful Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Anna Maria Is Coming, or Maybe Thomas Barton, or Max!<\/a><\/h3>\n
by Hilda Raz<\/h5>\n

New life! Will he toe out like Dolly, like John? Will her eyes be fires?
\nBlue and green, like Papa\u2019s, the ocean at the shore?
\nWill she sing in the bath? Play piano in her diapers?
\nWill her heart leap at large machinery? Will he say, \u201cDribe dribe,\u201d
\nto his daddy, entering the tunnel? Will his hair be red? Will her hair curl?
\nWill her little face have the circumflex eyebrows of her mother? The pointed chin?
\nHer hair be fair, bright blonde? Will she frown at the light by the river?
\nOh, let her head fill with Greek Owls, her mouth with honey wine.
\nLet his hands cup the keys, the air of the studio filling with sound, the crunch of
\ncornflakes, the sift of raw sugar on the tongue, the great chords.<\/p>\n

And let the parents be fierce forever, Lord, as You are, exacting
\nprice and penalty for Your gifts, so they grow strong and joyous,
\nblessed by the memory of the black car, open to air,
\nchosen by a child in token of the power they give over,
\ntheir lives in service to new life, the great melt of petals under snow, the green rising.<\/p>\n

\n
Hilda Raz. \u201cAnna Maria Is Coming, or Maybe Thomas Barton, or Max!\u201d from Trans<\/em> copyright \u00a9 2001 by Hilda Raz, Wesleyan University Press.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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