Annette Gagliardi

When Baby Sleeps

When baby sleeps; her bright head nodding on your shoulder,             her hair gently tickling your neck and chin with downy feathers,                         her breath quick, then slow – a gentle in and out of a silent summer’s eve. Her baby sweat like dew on dawn’s meadow rises, filling your nostrils with its sweet smell

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Hydrangeas

Hydrangea Still-life These Hydrangea on my table sit in pale pink and blue clusters; each four-petal flowerette its own song of compatibility. They crush together like people crowded on a rush-hour commuter bus. Freckles of flower sediment  dust the chocolate table around the vase  like  powdered sugar sprinkled on brownies. The pale pink-to-green ribbon  gathers

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