To Michele, (on her 53rd Birthday)

I wonder what it would be like

To mark the date on a calendar?

To plan a celebration?

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-style-parent:""; font-size:10.0pt;"Times New Roman";} If you were here I would buy you flowers. I never knew your favorite kind. We might have taken you Out for steak and cocktails. Pick a movie that you'd like. I don't know why I'm thinking These things, these somber What ifs… I let haunt me. Seventeen years without your birthday Sometimes I let the day pass Without thought, without wonder.