Birthdays

Crossroads by Joyce Sutphen
The second half of my life will be black
Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
A Happy Birthday by Ted Kooser
This evening, I sat by an
On His Seventy-fifth Birthday by Walter Savage Landor
I strove with none; for none was worth my strife
A Newborn Girl at Passover by Nan Cohen
Consider one apricot in a basket of them.
Infant Joy by William Blake
I have no name
A Birthday by Christina Rossetti
My heart is like a singing bird
Fifty-Three by Eileen Myles
I've already had a lot of them
Poem at Thirty by Michael Ryan
The rich little kids across the street
Birth by Tina Chang
I was locked into a single seed, my future fathoming